-t

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 178 words | Copyright

-t1 suffix of abstr. sbs. derived from vbs., repr. IE. -t- in *-tis, *-tus, which is preserved as Gmc. -t after guttural, labial, and sibilant cons., e.g. draught, drift, thirst.

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