-full
English
editSuffix
edit-full
Usage notes
edit- In current usage, only standard for forming nouns (e.g., cheerfull is now a misspelling).
- For nouns, both forms have historically been considered acceptable; e.g., Weld’s Progressive English Grammar provides both spoonful and bowl-full as examples.[1] Now usually hyphenated (e.g., bowl-full instead of bowlfull), though both the spelling -ful and spaced compounds with full are more common (e.g., bowl full); however, the plural is rarely formed by suffixing -s instead of pluralizing the noun when spaced (e.g., bowl fulls versus bowls full), unlike with -full (bowl-fulls/bowlfulls or bowls-full/bowlsfull) and may be considered nonstandard.
References
edit- ^ Allen H[ayden] Weld (1859) “The Noun”, in George Payn Quackenbos, editor, Weld’s Progressive English Grammar, Illustrated with Copious Exercises in Analysis, Parsing, and Composition, Adapted to Schools and Academies of Every Grade, Portland, Me.: […] O. L. Sanborn & Company; Boston, Mass.: Chase & Nichols; Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co, part II (Words), page 44: “Nouns ending in ful and full, and compounds in which the principal word stands last, annex s or es, to form their plural; as, spoonful, spoonfuls; bowl-full, bowl-fulls; man-trap, man-traps; step-son, step-sons.”
Middle English
editSuffix
edit-full
- Alternative form of -ful (“-ful”)
Norwegian Bokmål
editSuffix
edit-full
- equivalent to -ful
See also
edit- “-full” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editSuffix
edit-full
- equivalent to -ful
See also
edit- “-full” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
editPronunciation
editSuffix
edit-full
- Alternative form of -ful
Declension
editDeclension of -full — Strong
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -full | -full | -full |
| Accusative | -fulne | -fulle | -full |
| Genitive | -fulles | -fulre | -fulles |
| Dative | -fullum | -fulre | -fullum |
| Instrumental | -fulle | -fulre | -fulle |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | -fulle | -fulla, -fulle | -full |
| Accusative | -fulle | -fulla, -fulle | -full |
| Genitive | -fulra | -fulra | -fulra |
| Dative | -fullum | -fullum | -fullum |
| Instrumental | -fullum | -fullum | -fullum |
Declension of -full — Weak
Swedish
editSuffix
edit-full
- equivalent to -ful
Derived terms
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- Norwegian Nynorsk suffixes
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- Old English lemmas
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