Where does “-er” come from?

-er (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Danish -er, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

-er (Norwegian Bokmål): person or thing that does an action indicated by...

Definitions

  1. person or thing that does an action indicated by...

Ancestry of “-er”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Danish-erForms agent nouns from verbs, with the sense...
2Old Norse-aria suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;...
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “-er”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Danish -er →