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Where does “-ar” come from?

-ar (Old Spanish) comes from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

Ancestry of “-ar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-ō—
2Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →