Where does “-er” come from?
-er (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Danish -er, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.
-er (Norwegian Bokmål): person or thing that does an action indicated by...
Definitions
- person or thing that does an action indicated by...
Ancestry of “-er”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Danish | -er | Forms agent nouns from verbs, with the sense... |
| 2 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 3 | Latin | -ārius | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | — |