Where does “-as” come from?

-as (Old Irish) comes from Proto-Celtic -assus, from Proto-Indo-European -ad-tus.

-as (Old Irish): Nominal suffix, used to form abstract ideas or...

Definitions

  1. Nominal suffix, used to form abstract ideas or...

Ancestry of “-as”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Celtic-assus—
2Proto-Indo-European-ad-tus—

Words derived from “-as”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ad-tus →Every word from Proto-Celtic -assus →