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.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tōrem Old Galician-Portuguese -dor Portuguese -dor Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -dor, from Latin -tōrem.
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.