I find this a nice counter-example to any claim that English suffixation is obligatorily logical. From Wordnik.com. [2010 February « Motivated Grammar] Reference
And what about the Umbrian suffixation is non-Indo-European anyway?. From Wordnik.com. [Is Etruscan ais 'deity' an Indo-European loanword?] Reference
Obviously there is great variation in how useful, innovative, illogical, lazy, funny, awkward, redundant, etc. these coinages are, but the underlying act (word formation through - y suffixation) has a long and illustrious history. From Wordnik.com. [Link love: language (4)] Reference
This latest group is merely a rebranding (or further classification) of people devoted to the sole purpose of defeating that guy who rightfully won a Democratic presidential election; a loose confederacy of street level strategists who are experts in the fields of clotheslining, kneecapping, smokescreening and all-out denying (also earning the honorary suffixation "ingers"). From Wordnik.com. [Steven Weber: To Er Is Human] Reference
I wouldn’t call - y suffixation gaga, but it has become very faddish. From Wordnik.com. [Link love: language (4)] Reference
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