Where does “-āri” come from?

-āri (Old High German) 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).

-āri (Old High German): used to form agent nouns

Definitions

  1. used to form agent nouns

Ancestry of “-āri”, 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 “-āri”

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