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.
used to express the comparative and superlative of a following adjective or adverb · most, -est (superlative) · more, most (to a greater / the greatest extent)
eş: davantage, -issime
köken: Inherited from Middle French plus, from Old French plus, from Latin plus.
aile: à plus, à plus tard, au plus, d'autant plus, d'autant plus que, de plus, de plus en plus, en plus, en plus de, ni plus ni moins
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ešče (“still, yet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁esk(ʷ)e(h₁). Cognate with Belarusian яшчэ (jašče), Ukrainian ще (šče), Polish jeszcze.
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.
than (used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison) · synonym of zanim (“before”)
köken: Etymology tree Polish a Proto-Indo-European *ney Proto-Balto-Slavic *nei Proto-Slavic *ni Polish ni Proto-Indo-European *ís Proto-Balto-Slavic *is Proto-Slavic *jь Proto-Indo-European *gʰe Proto-Balto-Slavic *ge Proto-Slavic *že Proto-Slavic *jь že Old Polish że Polish że Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *lei Proto-Slavic *li Old Polish li Polish li univ. Polish aniżeli…
-er, -ie; a suffix used to form nouns and proper nouns from place names, common nouns and adjectives; gives a familiar nuance to the original word; the original word is often truncated in the process.
köken: Probably from Swedish -is and possibly also extracted from slang terms including that suffix.
kova (“hard, tough”) + -is → kovis (“badass”)
mestaruus (“championship”) + -is → mestis (“league of champions”)
köken: From Proto-Italic *-jōs, from Proto-Indo-European *-yōs, for original **-yoss, i.e. the s-stem *-yos- with masculine nominative *-s. The ō from the nominative case was made common to all cases. Afterwards nom.sg. -iōr > -ior, by Latin sound laws. Thus paradoxically, as in the r-stems (soror, -tor, -or), in the resulting paradigm the one form with a short stem vowel is the only form whose stem was…
köken: From Old Norse en, earlier an, probably from Proto-Germanic *þan (“then”), like English than, German denn (“than, for”). For the loss of þ-, compare Old Norse at (“that”) from Proto-Germanic *þat (“that”).