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This paper examines the Mycenaean evidence for the suffix - σσο-/-ττο-. This suffix is characteristic of place names throughout Greece and the Western regions of Anatolia and has been attributed to different languages. In Mycenaean it can be identified in words ending in -so and -zo, most of them anthroponyms appearing on documents produced in Crete. The Mycenaean evidence confirms that this suffix is of pre-Hellenic origin, although it can also appear in the adaptation of names, belonging to different linguistic stocks, into Greek. Its phonological and morphological traits as well as its distribution are explored, with a special emphasis on its polymorphic origin and a tentative comparison with the Linear A material available to us. However, some issues must remain unsolved, particularly the variation between -σσο- and -σο-. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]