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Origin of -es
From the Greek suffix -es
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About 60% of the U.S. population report a preference for introversion, according to Myers-Briggs Co., the company known for a personality-assessment test that begins by separating the Is from the Es.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
She also teased her catty upcoming single “Él No Es Tuyo” — set for release in early March, the song notably features her former rival, Bellakath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
But finishing hot on the Latin charts is also “Si No Es Contigo,” where Cris MJ riffs his breathy voice over a sultry urban beat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
The first triple E outbreak on record occurred in Massachusetts in the 1830s in horses — the reason one of the three Es stands for “equine.”
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2024
“That your abuelos were crazy magicians? That they thought they could communicate with the dead? Es una locura, Sierra, family eccentricities. It has nothing to do with you.”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
It clarifies: “But use the apostrophe alone for Jesus’ and for ancient and biblical proper names of more than one syllable ending in -es: Demosthenes’ orations, Xerxes’ conquests, Jesus’ birth.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023
The only suffixes that count in the scansion are -en, -ed, and -es; as in sam-en, skat’r-èd, drev-èd, hat-èd, etc., and arw-ès, well-ès, watr-ès, etc.
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
The so-called Northumbrian records of the ninth and tenth centuries frequently use -es instead of -est, in the 2nd pers. preterite of regular verbs, e.g., ðu forcerdes usic on-bec = Thou turnedst us hindward.
From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Morris, Richard
An old method of forming the possessive, based on a misapprehension of the original Anglo-Saxon suffix -es, which was shortened in middle English to -is, and finally to s.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund
There is even a trace of the plural in -es, as in haues, 2581.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Most of the farms were replaced by housing developments two decades after a large swath of land was sold in 1920 to E.S.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2021
Erdnase, an author about whom nothing is known except that his name is E.S.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2018
Originally called Frederick Douglass School from its inception in 1889 until 1938, it was renamed after E.S.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2017
"We like to say that we pay our people to slow down," said David M. Binke, 55, chief executive of E.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2015
I scanned the flashlight lower: Here lies E.S.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
While Liam Delap tended to stay more central against ES Tunis, linking play on the edge of the box...
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
The suspects appeared to have arrived at the location in a Lexus ES.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
Trump Media then received an "unexpected" second $6 million payment from the ES Family Trust, according to receipts reviewed by The Guardian.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2023
The ATM business of Leonardo U.S. unit Selex ES "is a leading developer and manufacturer of en-route navigation, surveillance and precision approach and landing systems," Leonardo said.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2022
ES: “I know, I’m so upset. That’s why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass.”
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Museveni studied in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the 1960s when the university acted as a kind of revolutionary finishing school for anti-colonialists.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
In recent years, the company acquired terminals in Haifa, Israel; Tanzania’s Port of Dar es Salaam; Sri Lanka’s Port of Colombo; and a coal-export hub in North Queensland, Australia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Kimambi already faces charges of economic sabotage, which came up in court in Dar es Salaam on Thursday.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
Simba have struggled at the national stadium in Dar es Salaam, drawing both qualifiers there, and the Group D loss is an early setback.
From Barron's ● Nov. 23, 2025
I was soon joined by Joe Matthews, who had come from Ba-sutoland, and I insisted we should make haste for Dar es Salaam.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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