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Old English · suffix

-re

Part of speech
suffix, masculine
Declension
strong ja-stem
IPA
/re/
Syllables
re (1 syllable)
Modern English
applied-eroriginallymarks

-re1 · suffix · masculine

Senses

  1. masculine agent suffix, originally applied only to nouns

    fugol (“fowl, bird”) + -re → fuglre (“fowler”)

Declension · strong ja-stem

Declension of -re
SingularPlural
Nominative -re-ras
Accusative -re-ras
Genitive -res-ra
Dative -re-rum

-re2 · suffix

Senses

  1. Marks the strong feminine genitive, dative, and instrumental singular of adjectives.

All forms (5)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz, possibly from Latin -ārius.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Descendants

-er

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