Where does “-aie” come from?

-aie (Romanian) comes from Latin -ālia, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

-aie (Romanian): used to form collective nouns with some words

Definitions

  1. used to form collective nouns with some words

Ancestry of “-aie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-ālia—
2Latin-ālis—
3Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

Words derived from “-aie”

Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālia →