-aige
Middle French
Old French
Suffix
-aige
- Alternative form of -age
- Ke li Marchis m'envoia son messaige, et li Barrois a por m'amor josté (Conon de Béthune, L'autrier avint en cel autre païs)
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *sagyos (“seeker”).
Suffix
-aige m
- Forms nouns from existing nouns, indicating a person who engages in an activity associated with the base noun.
- cenn (“end”) + -aige → cennaige (“merchant”)
Inflection
| Masculine io-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | -aige | -aigeL | -aigiL |
| Vocative | -aigi | -aigeL | -aigiu |
| Accusative | -aigeN | -aigeL | -aigiuH |
| Genitive | -aigiL | -aigeL | -aigeN |
| Dative | -aigiuL | -aigib | -aigib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
Category Old Irish terms suffixed with -aige not found
References
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 268
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