Where does “-are” come from?

-are (Old Swedish) comes from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

-are (Old Swedish): a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria

Definitions

  1. a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria

Ancestry of “-are”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Norse-aria suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;...
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “-are”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Old Norse -ari →