neutral postfixes (null stress)

Old English suffixes

#al
#dom
#ed
#en1 (forms verbs from nouns and adjs)
#en2 (forms adjs from nouns of material): earthen, golden, wooden, woolen
#en3 (makes participles from certain verbs, used as adjs) drunken, forsaken, swollen


#er (nouns of agent or instrument from certain verbs):announcer, driver, islander, laborer, londoner, etc
#ess (forms feminine nouns from other nouns): actress, laundress, sorceress, waitress

#ful1 (makes nouns of measurement from other nouns; the suffix is a heavy syllable)
'armful, 'handful, 'houseful, 'mouthful

#ful2 (makes adjs from nouns and verbs: a light suffix with /schwa/)
painful, mournful, resentful, tactful

#hood falsehood, motherhood, liklihood

#ing

#ish

#less (schwa)

#ling

#ly1 (adjs from nouns)

#ly2 (adv from adjs)

#ness (schwa)

#ship (no schwa) mid-stress

#some (schwa)

#wise mid stress

#th1 (rare; makes abstract nouns from adjs and one verb; note vowel change in most verbs)
breadth, depth, growth, length, width, strength

#th2 ~ eth (forms ordinal numbers) seventh, tenth, twentieth (note vowel and consonant change in fifth)

#y1 (makes adjs, mostly from nouns) feathery, hungry, silky, (un)wieldy. Note vowel deletion in angry, hungry

#y2 (rare;forms nouns, mostly from other nouns)ministry, smithly

#y3 (alternatin in spelling with ie, forms diminutives) cookie, dolly, kitty, mommy