Where does “-air” come from?

-air (Scottish Gaelic) comes from Old Irish -aire, from Old French -aire, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

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Definitions

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Ancestry of “-air”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irish-aireAgentive affix, similar to English -er, -or
2Old French-aire—
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “-air”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Old Irish -aire →