"-ari" meaning in Icelandic

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Suffix

Forms: -ara [genitive, singular], -arar [plural]
Etymology: From the Old Norse -ari (“suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs”). This suffix is not Germanic, ultimately deriving from Latin -ārius through borrowings, and lives on in different guises in the Germanic languages, e.g., in the German -er, used for the same purpose. Etymology templates: {{inh|is|non|-ari||suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs}} Old Norse -ari (“suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs”), {{der|is|la|-ārius}} Latin -ārius, {{cog|de|-er}} German -er Head templates: {{head|is|suffix|genitive singular|-ara|plural|-arar|g=m}} -ari m (genitive singular -ara, plural -arar)
  1. -er, -or; (a masculine suffix used to form agent nouns from verb and noun stems) Tags: masculine, morpheme Derived forms: kallari, togari

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