[Ads-l] Antedating of "Suffix"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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suffix (OED 1778)

1720 John Henley _The Compleat Linguist_ no. 6 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) 39  There are words made of a Suffix and Prefix.

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