SECTION XX.

DIFFERENT FORMS OF SOME OF THE PREFIXES.

Some of the Prefixes have a variety of forms. Thus, AD has no less than ten, as ad, af, ag, al, an, ap, ar, as, at, a. These changes of form in the Prefixes are all made for the sake of euphony.

SECTION XXI.

SUFFIXES.

In this Section, the Radicals, being for the most part, very simple, are left without separate definition. In the first column, therefore, will be found the SUFFIXES, in the second, the DEFINITIONS OF THE SUFFIXES, in the third, the DERIVATIVES, and in the fourth, the DEFINITIONS OF THE DERIVATIVES.

* ATE and EN, in common with FY, IFY, and IZE, are defined above by the phrase "to make;" because they are commonly used to form verbs. This phrase, "to make," is taken, as a definition, merely for the sake of convenience. In many cases, other definitions, as "to cause," "" to put," &o., will be found more suitable. Sometimes the suffix is the mere sign of a verb; as locate, to place.

Besides this use, however, ATE and EN, as is seen in the text, to which may be added the suffix ED, are employed to form participles and participial adjectives; and, are then defined by such phrases as, "made of," "made into," "made, or formed like," "having," "affected by," &c.

* This Suffix has two other forms, ETY and TY; as, in variety, and novelty. The Suffix Ous has several forms, as EOUS, CEOUS, etc.

The Suffix FUL, when, with a radical, it forms a noun, signifies "what, or as much as, will fill;" as, handful, what, or as much as, will fill the band; armful, what will fill the arm.