-ies

Suffix

 * 1) ; equivalent to (dropped ) + ( + ).
 * country, countries; party, parties.
 * 1) Used to form the third person singular of the indicative of verbs ending in consonant + y.
 * party, parties; parry, parries.

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
From.

Suffix

 * 1)  reminding of, appropriate to, characteristic of

Usage notes

 * Variants:
 *  is added to back-vowel words
 *  is added to front-vowel words

Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *-jēs. According to Steinbauer, from hysterokinetic.