Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English language.

This is Episode 105, Suffix Summary.

In this episode, we're going to look at the changing nature of suffixes in early middle

English.

This time, we explored how prefixes were evolving during this period, so this is really the

second part of our look at New Word elements that entered English with the arrival of

loanwords from across the channel.

Once again, we'll begin with the suffixes that were common during the Old English period

before the Norman Conquest.

Then we'll look at some of the new suffixes that were introduced from Latin and French

after the Conquest.

Along the way, we'll also look at evidence for these new suffixes in the Uncrenowisa.

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And as always, you can reach me by email at Kevin at HistoryofEnglishPodcast.com.

So let's turn to this episode and the evolution of suffixes in the early middle English

period.

This time, I'm going to explore some of the common suffixes that were used in Old English

and early middle English.

I'm going to focus on those that still exist in modern English because it would be almost

impossible to discuss every suffix that existed in the earlier periods of English.

Just as we saw with prefixes in the last episode, suffixes range from the very common to the

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