Where does “-arí” come from?

-arí (Faroese) comes from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

-arí (Faroese): er, -or; a masculine suffix used to form agent nouns from verb and noun stems

Definitions

  1. er, -or; a masculine suffix used to form agent nouns from verb and noun stems

Ancestry of “-arí”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Norse-aria suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;...
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “-arí”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Old Norse -ari →