-y vs ultra-

-y

suffix
  • Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”, either “involving the referent” or “analogous to it”. 

  • Added to verbs to form adjectives meaning "inclined to". 

  • Used in the name of some locations which end in -ia in Latin. 

  • Forming abstract nouns denoting a state, condition, or quality. 

ultra-

prefix
  • Greater than normal quantity or importance, as in ultrasecret. 

  • Excessively, to an extreme, as in ultramicroscopic, ultra-careful. 

  • Beyond, outside of, as in ultrasonic. 

  • intensely, extremely, or exceptional 

  • Beyond, on the far side of, as in ultraviolet. 

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