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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle French -aire, from Latin -ārium. In many cases borrowed or derived from French -aire.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-air
- -ary; of or pertaining to
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish -aire, from Old French -aire, ultimately from Latin -ārium, the accusative of -ārius (“-er”, agent suffix).
Pronunciation
Suffix
-air
- Forming nouns from nouns and adjectives with the sense of ‘person or thing connected or involved with, belonging to, having’
- clàrsach (“harp”) + -air → clàrsair (“harpist”)
- iasg (“fish”) + -air → iasgair (“fisherman”)
- facal (“word, phrase”) + -air → faclair (“dictionary, vocabulary”)
- Samhain (“Halloween”) + -air → samhnair (“trick-or-treater”)
- Forming nouns from verbs with the sense of ‘person or thing which does’
- sgrubair
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