forms a feminine noun indicating a quantity or content measured by what the base noun denotes, often translatable as -ful in English.
köken: Inherited from Middle French -ee f, from Old French -ee, from Latin -ātam (accusative of -āta), whence also -ade, which is borrowed from other Romance languages.
bras (“arm”) + -ée → brassée (“armful”)
an (“year”) + -ée → année (“(duration of) a year”)
forms words, derived from nouns, signifying a group (i.e. it forms collective nouns) · forms words, derived from nouns, corresponding to -ful (as much as something will hold) · forms words indicating a period of time
used to form adjectives from nouns; -ose, -ous, -ful (full of or overly prone to)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos Latin -ōsus Likely reflects a derivation *-h₃d-s-o- from Proto-Indo-European *h₃édos ~ *h₃édesos (“smell”), whence odor. Originally meaning “smelling like”, as evidenced possibly by hircōsus (“smelling like a goat”) and vinōsus (“fond of wine, *reeking of wine?”), it…