Old English · suffix
-ere
- Part of speech
- suffix, masculine
- Declension
- strong ja-stem
- IPA
- /e.re/
- Syllables
- e · re (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- applied-eroriginally
Meaning
-
masculine agent suffix, originally applied only to nouns
dōm (“judgement”) + -ere → dōmere (“judge”)
Declension
All forms (5)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *-ārī, from Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz. Uncertain ultimate origin, usually held to be from Latin -ārius. Gąsiorowski instead suggests that *-ārijaz is a native formation; he derives it from earlier *-azrijaz, which he etymologises as a zero-grade form of *-sōr suffixed with *-ih₂, creating a suffix *-sr-ih₂ for forming feminine agent nouns, which were then masculinised by attaching *-ós. He also suggests a relation to Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā. Cognate with Old Frisian -ere, Old Saxon -āri, Old High German -āri.
Descendants
-er
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