Where does “-ere” come from?

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

-ere (Old English): masculine agent suffix, originally applied only...

Definitions

  1. masculine agent suffix, originally applied only...

Ancestry of “-ere”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic-ārī-er
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 →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Proto-Germanic -ārijaz →