Forms agent nouns etc. from verbs, suffixed to the verb stem. · Forms instance nouns from verbs. · Indicates something defined by a number; in the plural often all numbers with the same first digits
köken: From Middle High German -ære, -er, from Old High German -āri, from Proto-West Germanic *-ārī, from Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz, further etymology unknown but possibly from Latin -ārius.
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.
forms the augmentative of nouns · used to refer to things affectionately · forms nouns, from nouns, implying that the suffixed noun is powerful or good
zıt: -inho, -ito, -culo, -ete
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese -on, from Latin -ōnem. Akin to Galician -ón, Spanish -ón, Italian -one and French -on, compare Romanian -oi.
livro (“book”) + -ão → livrão (“big book”)
janela (“window”) + -ão → janelona (“big window”)
filho (“son”) + -ão → filhão (“used by a father to address his son, when he is proud of the son”)
Regular construction of comparative: ful (“ugly”) → fulare (“uglier”) · Denotes a person or object who (regularly) performs the action of the verb: klättra (“climb”) → klättrare (“climber”)
köken: From Old Swedish -are, from Old Norse -ari (also substituting Old Norse -ir), from Proto-Germanic *-ōzô.
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.
forms agent nouns and adjectives from verbs; the vowel of the infinitive is kept, i.e. -ador, -edor, -idor · forms agent nouns from another noun associated with the action
köken: Inherited from Latin -tōrem, from Proto-Italic *-tōr, from Proto-Indo-European *-tōr < *-tor-s.