Where does “-ere” come from?

-ere (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch -āri, from Proto-Germanic -ārijaz, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

-ere (Middle Dutch): Forms agent nouns from verbs

Definitions

  1. Forms agent nouns from verbs

Ancestry of “-ere”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutch-āri—
2Proto-Germanic-ārijaz-er
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “-ere”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →