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Where does “-s” come from?

-s (Manx) comes from Old Irish -sa — emphatic first-person singular suffix.

-s (Manx): -self

Definitions

  1. -self

Ancestry of “-s”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irish-saemphatic first-person singular suffix

Words derived from “-s”

  • lhiats
  • lhiams
  • hoods
  • maryms
  • mayrts
  • dhyts
  • orts
  • orryms
Every word from Old Irish -sa →