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English
Etymology 1
Eye dialect spelling variant of -s.
Suffix
-z
- (urban slang, lolspeak, leetspeak) Used as a substitute for -s in marking the plural of nouns. Usually used in words in which the -s suffix is actually pronounced /z/.
Boyz are always trouble.
Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs (Gen 1:1, LOLcat Bible)
- (urban slang) Used as a substitute for -s in marking verb inflections.
He lovez me.
Etymology 2
Rhotacism of /ɹ/
Documented since at least 1987.[1]
Suffix
-z
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Forms nicknames, especially of personal names.
- Barry + -z → Baz
- Sharon + -z → Shaz
- Jeremy + -z → Jez
- (UK) Forms colloquial variants of words.
- sorry + -z → soz
- tomorrow + -z → tomoz
- apparently + -z → appaz
Usage notes
- Applied to words whose stressed syllable ends in /ɹ/, with the suffix replacing the /ɹ/ and the rest of the word.
Derived terms
References
- ^ John Silverlight (1987) More Words, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 53: “Examples are 'Kaz', 'Shaz', 'Baz' and Waz' for Karen, Sharon, Barry, and Warwick, and the latest, 'soz' for sorry.”
Basque
Etymology
Unknown.[1]
Suffix
-z
- Instrumental indefinite suffix.
- autobus (“bus”) + -z → autobusez (“by bus”)
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ “-z” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Uralic *-ta-. The preceding vowel, if any, is from the original stem of the root word.
Suffix
-z
- (verb-forming suffix) Added to a noun to form a verb. Less frequently, it can also be found added onto other parts of speech.
- só (“salt”, noun) + -z → sóz (“to salt”)
- tiszta (“clean, clear”, adjective) + -z → tisztáz (“to clarify”)
- kettő (“two”, numeral) + -z → kettőz (“to duplicate, to double”)
- maga (“you”, pronoun, formal) + -z → magáz (“to address someone formally”)
- ide (“here, this way”, adverb) + -z → idéz (“to summon”)
- (obsolete noun-forming suffix) Found in igaz, száraz. See the main variant -sz.
Usage notes
- (verb-forming suffix) Variants:
- -z is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.
- -oz is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -az is added to other back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -ez is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -öz is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -áz is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant
Note: Certain words take another, synonymous suffix, -zik/-ozik/-azik/-ezik/-özik or -l/-ol/-al/-el/-öl/-ál.
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
Old French
Suffix
-z
- Replaces -ts at the end of a word.
- mort (“dead”) (oblique singular) → morz (“dead”) (oblique plural)
Swahili
Suffix
-z
- (Sheng) "urbanizes" a word, makes it more hip with youth
Usage notes
In Kenya, (-z) can be applied to nouns and verbs. In Tanzania, (-z) is usually only applied to nouns, like mtotoz.