The Second in a Series of Occasional Linguistics Quizzes

Two words from the following list share an affix.

Do you know which two and why?

wetter

manner

ruler

fewer

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The answer is: wetter and fewer

The words wetter and fewer both contain the inflectional, comparative -er suffix.

The word ruler contains the derivational -er suffix, changing the verb rule to the noun ruler.

The word manner is a single morpheme and does not have a suffix.

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In morphology, the same forms do not always have the same functions.