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Original entry ↗suffix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryForming adjectives and adverbs denoting course or direction to, or motion or tendency toward, as in "backwards", "towards", etc.
From Middle English -wardes, from Old English -weardes, a variant of -weard; equivalent to -ward + -s (adverbial suffix). Cognate with German -wärts, Dutch -waarts.
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