Where does “-tager” come from?
-tager (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål tage, from Norwegian Bokmål -er, from Danish -er, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.
Ancestry of “-tager”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | tage | — |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | -er | person or thing that does an action indicated by... |
| 3 | Danish | -er | Forms agent nouns from verbs, with the sense... |
| 4 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ārius | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | — |
Words derived from “-tager”