-z

An eye dialect spelling variant of -s.

-z

1. (urban slang, lolspeak, leetspeak) Used as a substitute for -s in marking the plural of nouns. Usually used in words in which the -s suffix is actually pronounced /z/.

   Boyz are always trouble.

   Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs (Gen 1:1, LOLcat Bible)

2. (urban slang) Used as a substitute for -s in marking verb inflections.

   He lovez me.

Rhotacism of /ɹ/. Attested since at least 1987.^[1]

-z

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Forms nicknames, especially of personal names.

   ‎Barry + ‎-z → ‎Baz

   ‎Sharon + ‎-z → ‎Shaz

   ‎Jeremy + ‎-z → ‎Jez

2. (UK) Forms colloquial variants of words.

   ‎sorry + ‎-z → ‎soz

   ‎tomorrow + ‎-z → ‎tomoz

   ‎apparently + ‎-z → ‎appaz

• Applied to words whose stressed syllable ends in /ɹ/, with the suffix replacing the /ɹ/ and the rest of the word.

• -zza

• -ez (after consonants)

Unknown.^[1]

-z

1. Instrumental indefinite suffix.

   ‎autobus (“bus”) + ‎-z → ‎autobusez (“by bus”)

From Proto-Uralic *-ta-. The preceding vowel, if any, is from the original stem of the root word.

-z

1. (verb-forming suffix) Added to a noun to form a verb. Less frequently, it can also be found added onto other parts of speech.

   ‎só (“salt”, noun) + ‎-z → ‎sóz (“to salt”)

   ‎tiszta (“clean, clear”, adjective) + ‎-z → ‎tisztáz (“to clarify”)

   ‎kettő (“two”, numeral) + ‎-z → ‎kettőz (“to duplicate, to double”)

   ‎maga (“you”, pronoun, formal) + ‎-z → ‎magáz (“to address someone formally”)

   ‎ide (“here, this way”, adverb) + ‎-z → ‎idéz (“to summon”)

2. (obsolete noun-forming suffix) Found in igaz, száraz. See the main variant -sz.

• (verb-forming suffix) Variants:

  -z is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.

  -oz is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -az is added to other back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -ez is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -öz is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -áz is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant

Note: Certain words take another, synonymous suffix, -zik/-ozik/-azik/-ezik/-özik or -l/-ol/-al/-el/-öl/-ál.

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

• Csonka Csilla: A -l(ik) és a -z(ik) igeképzőkről a magyar mint idegen nyelv szempontjából (On the verb-forming suffixes -l(ik) and -z(ik) from the perspective of Hungarian as a foreign language)

-z

1. Replaces -ts at the end of a word.

   mort (“dead”) (oblique singular) → morz (“dead”) (oblique plural)

   • c. 1100s, Marie de France, Equitan:

     Femme espuse ot li seneschals,
     Dunt puis vient el païs granz mal[s]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

-z

1. (Sheng) "urbanizes" a word, makes it more hip with youth

In Kenya, (-z) can be applied to nouns and verbs. In Tanzania, (-z) is usually only applied to nouns, like mtotoz.