Where does “þurrkari” come from?
þurrkari (Icelandic) comes from Icelandic -arí, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.
þurrkari (Icelandic): dryer
Ancestry of “þurrkari”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Icelandic | -arí | — |
| 2 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 3 | Latin | -ārius | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | — |