Morpheme
-(e)s [-s, -es]
Type
suffix
Denotation
plural noun suffix
Etymology
Middle English -es; Old English -as
Evidence
apples, ashes, babies, benches, blankets, boxes, bushes, candies, cars, cats, churches, clothes, crunches, dogs, eagles, fairies, flies, flourishes, glitches, gloves, hands, heroes, houses, igloos, jars, kittens, ladders, ladies, marshes, muffins, nieces, ovens, owls, patches, pears, ponies, porches, potatoes, queens, ranches, saws, skies, spies, songs, switches, tacos, taxes, tomatoes, torches, trees, umbrellas, vaccines, vetoes, volcanoes, waxes, wishes, xylophones, yams, zebras, zippers, zoos
Homographs
Es, Es, es-, -es, -es, -es, -es, -es, -es, -es, S, s-, s-, -s, -s, -s, -s-
