Where does “kveikjari” come from?
kveikjari (Icelandic) comes from Icelandic -arí, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.
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Ancestry of “kveikjari”, 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 | — |