A suffix of verbs in their infinitive form. · A suffix indicating the 1st and 3rd person plural forms (except the present indicative sind of sein). · A suffix appended to strong verb stems to form the past participle, usually together with ge-.
köken: From Middle High German -en, a merger of various terminations in Old High German reflecting different conjugational patterns, namely -an, -ōn, -en (-ien), and -nen, from Proto-Germanic *-aną, *-ōną, *-janą, *-āną, and *-naną.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Middle French -er French -er Inherited from Middle French -er. For the loss of final -r in pronunciation, compare another suffix -ier (but not its feminine form -ière), and nouns gars and monsieur. Elsewhere, -r is not silent (e.g. hiver, mer).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -āris Old Spanish -ar Spanish -ar Inherited from Old Spanish -ar, from Latin -āris.
Forms verbs from nouns and adjectives. The stem of the word itself does not change.
köken: Primarily from weak class 2, from Middle Dutch -en, from Old Dutch -on, from Proto-West Germanic *-ōn, from Proto-Germanic *-ōną, from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti (denominative) and *-h₂ti (factitive). Also partially from weak class 1 (Old Dutch -en, from Proto-West Germanic *-jan) and strong verbs (Old Dutch -an, from Proto-West Germanic *-an), which, together with the weak class 2 suffix, all…
groot + -en → de groten (“the great ones”)
een + -en → ten enen male
de hertog + -en → des hertogen, a genitive preserved in 's-Hertogenbosch
forms verbs from nouns or adjectives — forms regular first-conjugation verbs in the impersonal infinitive · forms the first-person singular infinitive of first-conjugation verbs · forms the third-person singular infinitive of first-conjugation verbs
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old Galician-Portuguese -ar Portuguese -ar Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -ar, from Latin -āre, infinitive ending of first conjugation verbs.
Used to form genitive phrases, attached to the last word in a noun phrase.
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish -s, from Old Norse -s, originally the genitive singular ending of a-stem nouns. Cognate with Danish -s. The frequent use of the suffix in written and modern colloquial Swedish is possibly the result of foreign influence, either Latin or Middle Low German.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian ـِ (ezafe), from Middle Persian Y (ī), from Proto-Iranian *Hyáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hyás, from Proto-Indo-European *Hyós (relative pronoun). Doublet of जो (jo).
by, through; the suffix of the prolative, determines the channel by which something takes place.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *-ic'ëC, consisting of the suffix *-icci plus an additional consonant. The additional consonant is found in Finnish, Ingrian and Votic; most other Finnic languages have forms deriving from the vowel-final form. Cognate with Estonian -itsi, Karelian -ičči, Veps -iči, Ingrian -itse, Votic -ze.
köken: From suffixed noun ért, éret (“instead of sth., in exchange”), evolved from *ér (“presumably "place"”), a noun of unknown origin extended with -t (“locative suffix”).
present active infinitive of -ō (third conjugation)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-ezi Latin -ere From Proto-Italic *-ezi, from Proto-Indo-European *-esi, locative case of action nouns, which end in *-os in the nominative. Similar to Ancient Greek -ειν (-ein) < *-ehen, which comes from an alternative locative case form, *-esen. Note adverbial temere.