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Where does “-ies” come from?

-ies (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European -yḗh₂s.

-ies (Latin): Used to form an abstract noun, usually from an...

Definitions

  1. Used to form an abstract noun, usually from an...

Ancestry of “-ies”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European-yḗh₂s—

Words derived from “-ies”

  • rage
  • raging
  • pernicious
  • quotient
  • caries
  • rabid
  • rabies
  • carious
  • congeries
  • enrage
  • rabidly
  • enraging
  • perniciously
  • rageful
  • pseudorabies
  • emaciate
  • perniciousness
  • rager
  • rageth
  • pluries
  • ragingly
  • canities
  • egesta
  • anticaries
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