-ock, diminutive: bullock, hillock, paddock (= a little park), Pollock (= little Paul).

-m, or -om, forms nouns from verbs: bloom (from blow), gloom (glow), seam (sew), team (tow).

-red, state, sometimes collective, quality: hatred, kindred; Mildred (mild in counsel), Ethelred (noble in counsel).

-ric, office, dominion: bishopric.

-ship, state, office: clerkship, fellowship, horsemanship, lordship, stewardship, worship (= worthship).

-stead, place: bedstead, homestead, instead.

-ster denotes an agent, (originally a woman), a person who does something with skill or as an occupation: spinster, chorister, huckster, maltster, songster, tapster, roadster; baxster (bake-ster), brewster, webster (the woman who weaves). It is depreciative in: gamester, punster, oldster, trickster, youngster.

-th, -t, state, quality, act, number in order: dearth, filth, mirth, wealth, worth, theft, tenth.

-ther, -der, or -ter denotes an agent: father, mother, brother, sister; bladder (blow), rudder (row), laughter, water (wet), winter (wind).

-wright, work or workman: millwright, playwright, shipwright, wheelwright.