Where does “-adair” come from?

-adair (Scottish Gaelic) comes from Old Irish -atóir, from Latin -ator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

-adair (Scottish Gaelic): Forming nouns from nouns and adjectives with the...

Definitions

  1. Forming nouns from nouns and adjectives with the...

Ancestry of “-adair”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irish-atóir—
2Latin-ator-ator, -er; second-person singular future passive...
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “-adair”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin -ator →