Word: starlings
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: star
lings
Definition: Plural of starling; gregarious birds native to the Old World
Morphemes:
Affix: starle
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: starle
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.