Typical Greek suffixes. Primary stress on the third syllable from the end. (First vowel shown may vary.) ocracy, opathy, otony, otany, otomy, ophony, ology, onomy, otrophy, ogamy, ography, ophany, osophy, ognomy, ogony, omaly,

Mister Micawber wrote: Offhand, I would say that the addition of affixes other than negative or negative-like prefixes do not generally affect word stress, since they are usually unstressed themselves-- but that there are also many exceptions. I

Offhand, I would say that the addition of affixes other than negative or negative-like prefixes do not generally affect word stress, since they are usually unstressed themselves-- but that there are also many exceptions. I don't know of any

You could say sign your name if you really wanted to but it is not necessary and does sound a bit odd actually, everyone knows that when you sign something, you are signing your name. That is what sign means. Common phrases 'sign here;sign on the

not about stress shift, but you might find it interesting: trisyllabic laxing

If I may, I will affix this to the head of the forum, Forbes, thank you.

Hello, I think that Affix is an excellent name to use at this web site forum. It stands out on the page and is very memorable. One of the meanings of "affix" is an element of grammar, so

If anything I would say it is regressive since the affix is changing depending on the following phonemes. Ill try to figure it out and report back in a few minutes.

Affix = prefix or suffix . Ir of irritable appears to be neither, at least in English, as it comes from L. irritatus , from pp. stem of irritare 'excite, provoke.'

This looks a lot like homework to me, Civic. Why don't you Google some of these terms?-- inflection, adverb, affix, compound noun .