Morpheme
-(e)s [-s, -es]
Type
suffix
Denotation
plural noun suffix
Etymology
Middle English -es; Old English -as
Evidence
animatrices, 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
Notes
singular animatrix ~ Latin plural animatrices homophone of English plural animatrices
Homographs
Es, Es, es-, -(e)s [-s, -es], -es, -es, -es, -(e)s [-s, -es], -es, -es, -es, S, s-, s-, s-, -s, -s, -s-
