However, Intel subsequently used the ' DX ' suffix to refer to the floating-point capability of the i486DX.

In Chinese, Gōngfu ( 功夫 ) is a compound of two words, combining 功 ( gōng ) meaning " work ", " achievement ", or " merit ", and 夫 ( fū ) which is alternately treated as being a word for " man " or as a particle or nominal suffix with diverse meanings ( the same character is used to write both ).

When a singular concept is needed, or is used as a suffix.

*- land, a suffix used in the names of several countries and other regions

A Nahuatl mispronunciation of " Marina " as " Malin " plus the reverential "- tzin " suffix, formed the compounded title of " Malintzin ," which the natives used for both Marina and Cortes, because he spoke through her.

* The name Nepal is also supposed to be derived from the Sanskrit word " NEP "( न े प ), with the suffix " AL " ( आल ) added to it ; though still under controversy, NEP were the people who used to be cow herders — the GOPALS ( ग ो प ा ल )— who came to the Nepal valley for the first time from the Ganges plain of India.

Another style of notation, rarely used in English, uses the suffix " is " to indicate a sharp and " es " ( only " s " after A and E ) for a flat, e. g. Fis for F, Ges for G, Es for E. This system first arose in Germany and is used in almost all European countries whose main language is not English or a Romance language.

The two main conjugations of verbs in present and past tense were also present and like all other North Germanic languages, it used a suffix instead of a prepositioned article to indicate definiteness as in modern Scandinavian: man ( n ) (" man "); mannen (" the man ").

The historic counties of England — red indicates "- shire " counties, orange indicates where the "- shire " suffix is occasionally used

The suffix was also used for many hundreds, wapentakes and liberties such as Allertonshire, Blackburnshire, Halfshire, Howdenshire, Leylandshire, Powdershire, Pydarshire, Richmondshire, Riponshire, Salfordshire, Triggshire, Tynemouthshire, West Derbyshire and Wivelshire, counties corporate such as Hullshire, and other districts such as Applebyshire, Bamburghshire, Bunkleshire, Carlisleshire, Coldinghamshire, Coxwoldshire, Cravenshire, Hallamshire, Mashamshire and Yetholmshire.

In the Spanish language, the suffix "- ista " is used to indicate a predilection towards the root.

The element-linna, like Germanic-burg and Slavic-grad /-gorod, originally meant " fortress " but is used as a suffix in the formation of town names.

They consist of a " headword " ( the UW root ) and a " constraint list " ( the UW suffix between parentheses ), the latter being used to disambiguate the general concept conveyed by the former.

However, " xsl " is used both as the conventional namespace prefix for the XSLT namespace, and as the conventional filename suffix for files containing XSLT stylesheet modules

The suffix identifier is also used as a representation term when naming a data element.

The plural form of a noun is usually created by adding the suffix -( e ) s. The pronouns have irregular plurals, as in " I " versus " we ", because they are ancient and frequently used words.

In Hungarian, the suffix " ban / ben " is most commonly used for inessive case, although many others, such as-on ,-en ,-ön and others are also used, especially with cities.

In Hungarian the suffix " ból / ből " is used for elative.

What determines which suffix is used in a given situation is unclear.

The suffix-ne is used alone only when it is an attribute of another word, otherwise additional possessive suffix must be added, such as-ne + en, e. g. suurine vuorineen " with its large mountains ".

This " san " is not the honorific suffix used with people's names, such as Watanabe-san, but the on ' yomi reading of the character 山 yama ( meaning mountain ) used in compounds.

The suffix " path " is used to indicate a disease, e. g. psychopath.

The two words may be derived from the same Indo-European form * ṇ-mṛ-to-: immortal ( n-: negative prefix equivalent to the prefix a-in both Greek and Sanskrit ; mṛ: zero grade of * mer-: to die ; and-to-: adjectival suffix ).

It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, " the ' stans " ( as the five countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "- stan ", meaning " land of ") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.

The first exoplanet found to be orbiting such a star could then be regarded as a secondary sub-component that should be given the suffix " Ab.

As an alternative to the nomenclature standard in Rule 1, a hierarchical relationship can be expressed by concatenating the names of the higher order system and placing them in parentheses, after which the suffix for a lower order system is added.

An example is the past tense suffix -⟨ ed ⟩, which may be pronounced variously as,, or ( for example, dip, dipped, boom, boomed, loot, looted ).

In fact, the etymology of the family is enterobacterium with the suffix to designate a family ( aceae ) — not after the genus Enterobacter ( which would be " Enterobacteraceae ")— and the type genus is Escherichia.

Without this suffix, a countable noun is understood to be singular.

For example, the suffix "- able " can be added to transitive verbs only, so that we get " read-able " but not " cry-able ".

The suffix – shire could be a generalised term referring to a district.

The Segway PT ( PT is an initialism for personal transporter while the old suffix HT was an initialism for human transporter ) has electric motors powered by Valence Technology phosphate-based lithium-ion batteries which can be charged from household current.

Epenthesis can be regular, as when the Indo-European " tool " suffix *- tlom everywhere becomes Latin-culum ( so speculum " mirror " < * speḱtlom, pōculum " drinking cup " < * poH < sub > 3 </ sub >- tlom.

This unusually complex way of adding a suffix can be explained by its reconstructed origin: a voiced palatal fricative.

The timbers of Entandrophragma are sold under their individual names, sometimes with " mahogany " attached as a suffix, for example " sipo " may be referred to as " sipo mahogany ".

The word " swastika " comes from the Sanskrit svastika-" su " meaning " good ," " asti " meaning " to be ," and " ka " as a suffix.

Or another translation can be made: " swa " is " higher self ", " asti " meaning " being ", and " ka " as a suffix, so the translation can be interpreted as " being with higher self ".

In the Alemannic language once spoken in Lorraine, the-ingen suffix signified a property ; thus, in a figurative sense, " Lotharingen " can be translated as " Land belonging to Lothair ".

The origin of her name is believed by some like Robert S. P. Beekes to be Pre-Greek and related to pēnelops ( πηνέλοψ ) or * pēnelōps (* πηνέλωψ ), glossed by Hesychius as " some kind of bird " ( today arbitrarily identified with the Eurasian Wigeon, to which Linnaeus gave the binomial Anas penelope ), where-elōps (- έλωψ ) is a common pre-Greek suffix for predatory animals ;< ref > Zeno. org lemma relating πηνέλωψ ( gen. πηνέλοπος ) and < χην ( ά ) λοπες >· ὄρνεα ( predators ) ποιά.

They are used even when the inflection of the stem can be determined by a following inflectional suffix, so the primary function of okurigana for many kanji is that of a phonetic complement.

The suffix AB may be used to denote the pair ( for example, the binary star α Centauri AB consists of the stars α Centauri A and α Centauri B.