Where does “-ai” come from?

-ai (French) comes from Latin -āvī — first conjugation; verbs with the perfect infix.

-ai (French): A suffix denoting the first-person singular past...

Definitions

  1. A suffix denoting the first-person singular past...

Ancestry of “-ai”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-āvīfirst conjugation; verbs with the perfect infix
Every word from Latin -āvī
-ai — Etymology, Origin & Word History | Etymology Explorer