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^ Mitxelena, Koldo L. (1961) Fonética histórica vasca [Basque Historical Phonetics] (Obras completas de Luis Michelena; 1) (in Spanish), Diputación Foral de Guipuzkoa, published 1990, →ISBN, page 135
^ “-ari” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
Mostly borrowed from Old Norse-ari(“suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs”) (itself mostly from Latin-ārius) through its use in many loanwords. Partially from and reinforced by -ri.
Suffix
-ari (front vowel harmony variant-äri, linguistic notation-Ari)
Used to create names of occupations from nouns or verbs.
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.
Borrowed as part of Medieval Latin and Middle Low German words. In both cases, it stems from Latin-ārius.
The suffix -ari replaced the native suffix -i which was used for agent nouns before: skytari(“shooter, bowman”) instead of skyti(“shooter, bowman”), both derived from skjóta(“to shoot”).
-ari, while common in the descendant languages, is never found in the oldest poetry or Runic inscriptions and very rare in Old Norse. Native alternatives like -ir, -i and -andi are preferred.