Morpheme
-(e)s [-s, -es]
Type
suffix
Denotation
third person singular simple present verb suffix
Etymology
Middle English -es, -is; Old English -es, -as
Evidence
argues, asks, aspires, avoids, axes, barks, billows, buries, buys, carries, cooks, does, drinks, eats, faxes, faxes, fizzes, fizzes, fizzles, goes, hears, impeaches, jazzes, jokes, juices, kisses, lays, licks, loses, marries, mashes, meows, misses, notes, opens, posits, pushes, quits, raspberries, runs, says, searches, shows, sighs, smiles, snazzes, snows, switches, talks, tarries, taxes, toots, urges, vetoes, walks, wanders, washes, watches, waxes, wishes, xeroxes, yells, zips, zooms
Homographs
Es, Es, es-, -es, -es, -es, -(e)s [-s, -es], -es, -es, -es, S, s-, s-, s-, -s, -s, -s-
