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• -sis

  a suffix appearing in loanwords from greek, where it was used to form from verbs abstract nouns of action, process, state, condition, etc.: thesis; aphesis. -sis suffix in gk. nouns denoting action, process, state, condition, from gk. -sis, which is identical in meaning with l. -entia, eng. -ing.

• -sk

  -sk reflexive suffix in words of dan. origin (e.g. bask, lit. “to bathe oneself”), contracted from o.n. sik, reflexive pr-noun corresponding to goth. sik, o.h.g. sih, ger. sich “himself, herself, itself,” from pie base -se- (cf. l. se “himself”).

• -smith

  -smith combining word a person who makes or skillfully uses what is indicated; artist: jokesmith/ tunesmith/ wordsmith/ wafflesmith (1813+)

• -sol

  a combining form meaning “soil” of the kind specified by the initial element: spodosol.

• -soma

  a variant of -some3 , used especially in the formation of names of zoological genera: schistosoma.

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