Where does “-teyr” come from?

-teyr (Manx) comes from Old Irish -tóir, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

-teyr (Manx): Suffix appended to words to create an agent noun,...

Definitions

  1. Suffix appended to words to create an agent noun,...

Ancestry of “-teyr”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irish-tóir
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s

Words derived from “-teyr

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s
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