"possessive suffix" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: possessive suffixes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} possessive suffix (plural possessive suffixes)
  1. (linguistics) A suffix that indicates possession, occurs in some Uralic, Turkic, Semitic and Indo-European languages. Wikipedia link: en:possessive suffix Categories (topical): Linguistic morphology, Linguistics Translations (Suffix indicating possession): ստացական հոդ (stacʿakan hod) (Armenian), posesivní sufix [masculine] (Czech), omistusliite (Finnish), possessiivisuffiksi (Finnish), birtokos személyjel (Hungarian), suffisso possessivo [masculine] (Italian), sufix posesiv [neuter] (Romanian), sufijo posesivo [masculine] (Spanish), iyelik eki (Turkish), olddodiad meddiannol [masculine] (Welsh)

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