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
person or animal who does an action indicated by the root verb or noun; used to form an agent noun, profession or occupation
köken: From Old Turkic -či (agent noun suffix). Cognate with exactly analogous suffixes in other Turkic languages: Kazakh -ші (-şı), Uzbek -chi, Turkish -çi, -ci, etc.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tōrem Old Galician-Portuguese -dor Portuguese -dor Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -dor, from Latin -tōrem.
appended to verbs and nouns to form masculine agent nouns denoting profession/occupation; -er, -or · appended to words to form masculine nouns denoting animals; · appended to words to form masculine nouns denoting objects;
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Gothic -𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (-areis)bor. Proto-Slavic *-ařь Old East Slavic -арь (-arĭ) Old Ruthenian -арь (-arʹ) Ukrainian -ар Inherited from Old Ruthenian -арь (-arʹ), from Old East Slavic -арь (-arĭ), from Proto-Slavic *-ařь, borrowed from Gothic -𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (-areis), from Proto-Germanic…
Used to create names of occupations from nouns or verbs. · General denominal noun suffix. · Denominal suffix used to clip nouns.
köken: Mostly borrowed from Old Norse -ari (“suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs”) (itself mostly from Latin -ārius) through its use in many loanwords. Partially from and reinforced by -ri.
Added to a noun to form an adjective meaning "having something, a quality"; sometimes referred to as ornative. · Added to a noun to form an occupation or a collective noun. · Added to an ordinal number to form a digit or figure, cf. the relevant template.
haj (“hair”) + -as → hajas (“covered with hair”)
fazék (“pot”) + -as → fazekas (“potter”)
három (“three”) + -as → hármas (“the digit or figure 3”)
-er; used to form masculine agent nouns from verbs
köken: From Proto-Italic *-tōr, from Proto-Indo-European *-tōr < *-tor-s. The -ō- from the nominative singular form was extended to all other forms by analogy; then word-final -ōr was shortened to -or by regular Latin sound laws, producing the Classical Latin paradigm with short -o- in the nominative singular and long -ō- elsewhere. Cognate to Sanskrit -तृ (-tṛ) (nominative singular -ता m sg (-tā)) and…
Forms agent nouns from verbs, with the sense "someone or something that verbs". · Forms plural forms of many nouns. · Forms the present tense of many verbs.
Suffix appended to words to create a neuter noun, usually an abstract noun denoting a relation, social status, scientific discipline, craft, quality or a state; equivalent to English -hood, -ness or -craft.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tusder. Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo Old Church Slavonic -ьство (-ĭstvo) Bulgarian -ство Inherited from Old Church Slavonic -ьство (-ĭstvo), from Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo.