suffix indicating the second-person singular present indicative of -ar.
köken: From Latin -ās, the second-person singular present active indicative ending of first conjugation verbs. Cognate with Asturian, Catalan, and French -es.
used with a stem to form the second-person singular present of regular -are, -ere verbs and those -ire verbs that do not take "isc" · used with a stem to form the second-person imperative of -ere verbs · used with a stem to form the first-, second- and third-person singular present subjunctive of -are verbs
köken: There are two competing theories: # From Latin -ī, nominative plural of masculine nouns in -us. # From Latin -ōs, accusative plural of the same nouns, according to the sound change -os > -oi > -i (compare the pronoun vi).
köken: Related to Northern Kurdish zerêşk, zirêşk, zirîşk, Gilaki [script needed] (zərəšk); Persian زریک (zerik), زرک (zerek), زرنگ (zarang), زراج (zarâj), زراک (zarâk); Yidgha [script needed] (azīto); Khotanese ysālva; all meaning "barberry" and ultimately deriving from the word for "yellow": compare Persian زر (zar, “gold”).
köken: Inherited from Ancient Greek -ῐς (-ĭs, feminine suffix), to be more congruous with other inflections of the suffix, e.g. -ῐδες (-ĭdes, plural). Many words which utilize this suffix in modern Greek are inheritances from older forms of Greek, though not exclusively.
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞ자ᇰ〮 (Yale: kòcáng). Original meaning: "very, extremely". Superlative meaning ("most") from sixteenth century onward. Displaced previous superlative adverbs 안〮직 (Yale: áncìk), ᄆᆞᆺ〮 (Yale: mós).
your (second-person singular informal, single possession) · Second-person singular personal suffix: · Forming conjugated infinitives (here: “for you to do sth”).
köken: From the *mtᴕ̈ second-person personal pronoun of the ancestor language after it was appended to the base word.
From Proto-Italic *-is, possibly in part from reanalysis of Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ (originally a suffix used to form feminine nouns). According to Sihler 1995, it is unclear to what extent i-stem adjectives were common in Proto-Indo-European; they are relatively rare in Greek and Indo-Iranian, but may have been lost as a shared innovation of these branches.