-adair

LanguageScottish Gaelic

Meaning

1. Forming nouns from nouns and adjectives with the sense of ‘person or thing connected or involved with, belonging to, having’
2. Forming nouns from verbs with the sense of ‘person or thing which does’
3. suffix for nouns
4. A suffix added to verbs or nouns to create a noun representing a person or thing that performs an action or is connected to a specific field.

Examples

Pronunciationətɛrʲ

Part of speechsuffix

Usage noteThis is a productive suffix in Gaelic for forming agent nouns.

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