Where does “-ätare” come from?

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

-ätare (Swedish): vore

Definitions

  1. vore

Ancestry of “-ätare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedish-areRegular construction of comparative: ful →...
2Old Swedish-area suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria
3Old Norse-aria suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;...
4Latin-āriuser
5Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “-ätare

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āziosEvery word from Latin -āriusEvery word from Swedish -are