-ish, similarity, pertaining or belonging to, somewhat: boyish, brutish, foolish, slavish, English, French, Irish, Scottish, Scotch, Welsh; blackish, whitish.

-le, weakens the root: brittle, fickle, little.

-less, without: bloodless, childless, fadeless, toothless.

-like, -ly, like: childlike, Godlike, ghastly (= ghostly), womanly.

-ow, modern form of old Eng. -u: callow, fallow, narrow, yellow.

-right, straight (= direct): downright, forthright, upright.

-some, like, full: blithesome (showing gladness), burdensome, gamesome, gladsome, irksome, winsome (wyn = joy).

-teen, ten: thirteen, etc.

-ty, tens: thirty, etc.

-ward, course, direction: awkward (awk = Icelandic afug, back foremost), cityward(s), landward, westward.