English Explanatory Dictionary

-t

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Used to form the past tense and/or past participle of some verbs.
suffix
  1. An excrescent ending appended to words suffixed with -s.
suffix
  1. Used to form nouns from verbs of action; equivalent to -th.
suffix
  1. Used to form verbs from nouns or adjectives (compare -ate, -ize), frequently having a causative force, or modified from an existing verb into a frequentative verb.
suffix
  1. Added to the end of words ending in ⟨d⟩, representing an AAVE pronunciation as /t/ rather than /d/, now generally with intensifying force.

Word forms

-t -et

Etymology

From Middle English -te (past tense ending), -t (past participle ending), from Old English -te, -de (first and third person past tense ending), -t, -ed, -od (past participle ending), from Proto-Germanic *-id- (past tense stem ending of class 1 weak verbs) and *-idaz (past participle ending of class 1 weak verbs). In some verbs, like lose/lost, the ‐t‐/‐t arose during the Middle English period from the devoicing of the earlier ‐d‐/‐d. This devoicing typically occurred after the suffix was syncopated from ‐ede and ‐ed, forcing the voiced alveolar stop directly against the stem’s final consonant. See -ed.

Related words

-ed

Derived words

abasht abolisht absorpt accomplisht accurst admonisht addrest advanc’t ambusht anguisht annext approacht askt astonisht attacht attackt avoucht banisht bent begat begot belcht bereft beset besought besprent bethought bit bleacht blemisht blent blest blockt blusht bornt bought brandisht brought brusht built burnisht burnt bynempt caught ceast checkt cherisht clasht cleft chirpt clapt clept clipt comprest condenst confest contradistinguisht crasht crept cropt
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