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(not productive except in zoology) of or pertaining to; appended to various foreign words to make an English adjective or noun form. Often added to words of Greek, sometimes Latin, origin.
From Proto-Samic*-jtē, originally the partitive/ablative plural form. Cognate with the Finnish partitive plural -ja, -ia, -ita.
The genitive plural originally had the ending -i, from Proto-Samic*-j. It was eliminated in favour of the accusative ending by analogy with the singular, where these cases fell together naturally.
Alternative form of -aidused after a slender consonant
References
^ McCone, Kim (1995) “OIr. senchae, senchaid and preliminaries on agent noun formation in Celtic”, in Ériu, volume 46, Royal Irish Academy, →ISSN, →JSTOR, retrieved 1 March 2023, pages 1–10
-id causes i-affection of internal vowels, for example, canu(“to sing”) + -id → cenid(“was being sung, one was singing, would sing, one would sing”).