-ee
suffixEtymology Perhaps a variation on -ie and -y
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Morpheme Used to form diminutives.
- boot + -ee → bootee
- goat + -ee → goatee
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- settle + -ee → settee
-ee
suffixEtymology From Middle English -ee, -ē, from Anglo-Norman and Old French -ee, French -é, -ée, endings forming past participle of verbs ending in -er. Doublet of -ate. More distantly related to inherited English -ed.
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Morpheme Added to transitive verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the object of that verb (i.e., to whom or to which an action is done).
- examine + -ee → examinee
- interview + -ee → interviewee
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- train + -ee → trainee
- employ + -ee → employee
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Morpheme, Uncommon Added to intransitive verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the subject of that verb (that is, who or that does an action).
- absent + -ee → absentee
- respond + -ee → respondee
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- stand + -ee → standee
- post + -ee → postee
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Law Morpheme Used to form words meaning a person who is the other party to a contract or other transaction involving a person described by the corresponding word ending in -or.
- assign + -ee → assignee
- legate + -ee → legatee
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- mortgage + -ee → mortgagee
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Medicine, Sciences Morpheme Used to form words meaning a person who has undergone a particular medical procedure.
- laryngectomy + -ee → laryngectomee
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Morpheme Irregularly added to nouns to mean a person somehow associated with the object denoted by the noun.
- barge + -ee → bargee
- tender + -ee → tenderee
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- venereal + -ee → venerealee