-ed vs -gate

-ed

suffix
  • Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant. 

  • Used to form possessional adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun. 

  • As an extension of the above, used to form possessional adjectives from adjective-noun pairs. 

  • Used to form past participles of (regular) verbs. See -en and -t for variants. 

-gate

suffix
  • Used to form place names. 

  • Combined with keywords to form the names of scandals. 

How often have the words -ed and -gate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )