-ship

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Suffixes

-archy

-Biology suffixes

-cide

-cracy

-cycle

-gate

-genesis

-hood

-ic

-id

-illion

-ism

-ist

-kinesis

-mania

-manship

-nik

-graphy

-oid

-logy

-ome

-omics

-nomy

-onym

-ous

-phil-

-phob-

-phone

-polis

-scope

-ship

-stan

-ville

-ware

The English suffix -ship referrs to a quality, status, skill or group.

Contents 1 Examples 1.1 Quality 1.2 Status 1.3 Skill 1.4 Group 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] Examples

[edit] Quality

• courtship
• friendship
• scholarship

[edit] Status

• clerkship
• professorship

[edit] Skill

• airmanship
• penmanship
• seamanship
• statesmanship

[edit] Group

• readership
• membership

[edit] See also

• -manship

[edit] External links

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