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 nouns from nouns or verbs, denoting someone who works with the suffixed noun or engages in the suffixed verb; -er; -eer · forms nouns, from nouns denoting a location or type of location, meaning “someone from the location” · forms nouns from the names of fruits or other plant products, denoting the plant bearing them, usually trees and shrubs
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -eiro, from Latin -ārius and -ārium, with metathesis of "i" (through a Vulgar Latin form *-airu). Compare Galician -eiro, Spanish -ero. Doublet of the borrowed suffix -ário.
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.
grader (noun suffix denoting a grade) · from nouns: forms nouns that indicate that the referent is characterized by or relating to the base noun · from adjectives: forms nouns that indicate that the referent has the property denoted by the base adjective
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”)
forms nouns meaning the location or object where something is usually found · forms nouns meaning a plant which is cultivated to produce something · forms nouns meaning the purpose of something or an object used for that purpose
köken: Inherited from Latin -ārius. Compare the borrowed doublet -ari.
a person who is occupied with, often but not necessarily implying a professional occupation · a person who follows an ideology or doctrine (often following a corresponding -ismo)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Esperanto -isto From Latin -ista.