Where does “-ære” come from?

-ære (Middle High German) comes from Old High German -āri, from Proto-West Germanic -ārī, from Proto-Germanic -ārijaz, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

Ancestry of “-ære”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High German-āriused to form agent nouns
2Proto-West Germanic-ārī-er
3Proto-Germanic-ārijaz-er
4Latin-āriuser
5Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “-ære”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Proto-Germanic -ārijaz →