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Compare-eau, where the English was deleted because it's not an English suffix, just some loanwords from French end in -eau. I find these two a little unclear anyway. For example, the example for the second one isstanza, that's a direct loan from Italian rather thanstanz +-a, also I don't see how it implies femininity. If it means the original Italian noun is feminine, then yes, but that's not relevant to the English definition.Mglovesfun (talk)20:16, 7 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Why don't we have this (or similar endings) as suffices in the Latin namespace?Furius (talk)07:05, 28 January 2013 (UTC)Reply
Kept for lack of consensus to delete.bd2412T21:13, 11 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
Perhaps we should be more specific about its use in creating female names likeKyla.Equinox◑18:28, 4 July 2016 (UTC)Reply
Why'sEtymology 8 readsShortened version of preposition of, but the label of the definition saysclitic form of o' ? --Backinstadiums (talk)20:59, 2 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
Wiktionary:Tea room/2020/May#-a.- -sche(discuss)22:27, 7 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
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Merge senses “(Northern England) Same as -er in Standard English.” and “(Black English and slang) Used to replace -er in nouns.” Doesn’t this represent the same phenomenon? —Ungoliant(falai)21:36, 18 April 2017 (UTC)Reply
Done.- -sche(discuss)16:23, 3 May 2020 (UTC)ReplyIs this not Modern Latin?Rich Farmbrough,17:41, 6 February 2023 (UTC).Reply