-ari

From Proto-Basque [Term?], a borrowing from Latin -ārium.^[1][2]

• -lari, -kari

-ari

1. Used to create names of occupations from nouns.

   ‎olerki (“poem”) + ‎-ari → ‎olerkari (“poet”)

2. Used to form adverbs and nouns from nouns of time; every, each

   ‎egun (“day”) + ‎-ari → ‎egunkari (“newspaper”)

• -kari

-ari

1. Used in names of meals.

   ‎arrats (“evening”) + ‎-ari → ‎askari (“afternoon snack”)

   ‎baratu (“to stop”) + ‎-ari → ‎barazkari (“lunch”)

From -a (definite article) +‎ -(r)i (dative suffix).

-ari

1. Dative singular suffix.

Borrowed from Latin -ārius. Doublet of -er.

-ari (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ària, masculine plural -aris, feminine plural -àries)

1. forms adjectives, from nouns, meaning “of or related to the suffixed nouns”

   ‎revolució (“revolution”) + ‎-ari → ‎revolucionari (“revolutionary”)

• “-ari”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “-ari” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

From the Old Norse -ari (“suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs”), from Middle Low German [Term?], from Latin -ārius.

-ari m (genitive singular -ara, plural -arar)

1. -er, -or; (a masculine suffix used to form agent nouns from verb and noun stems)

   at baka (“to bake”) + -ari → bakari (“a baker”).

• átari
• flekjari
• klokkari
• skrivar

• -uri

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.

-ari (front vowel harmony variant -äri, linguistic notation -Ari)

1. Used to create names of occupations from nouns or verbs.

   ‎kartta (“map”) + ‎-uri → ‎kartturi (“navigator”)

   ‎vaate (“garment”) + ‎-uri → ‎vaatturi (“tailor”)

   ‎duunata (“to work”) + ‎-ari → ‎duunari (“worker”)

   ‎puutarha (“garden”) + ‎-uri → ‎puutarhuri (“gardener”)

   ‎urut (“organ”) + ‎-uri → ‎urkuri (“organist”)

   ‎saha (“saw, sawmill”) + ‎-uri → ‎sahuri (“sawmill operator”)

   ‎rokki (“rock music”) + ‎-ari → ‎rokkari (“rocker”)

2. (colloquial) General denominal noun suffix.

   ‎huppu + ‎-ari → ‎huppari

   ‎häly + ‎-ari → ‎häläri

   ‎hintti + ‎-ari → ‎hinttari

   ‎kulma + ‎-uri → ‎kulmuri

3. (colloquial) Denominal suffix used to clip nouns.

   ‎ostoskeskus + ‎-ari → ‎ostari

   ‎ryynimakkara + ‎-ari → ‎ryynäri

   ‎poskisauhu + ‎-ari → ‎poskari

4. (slang) Used to create terms meaning "supporter of something"

   ‎kommunisti (“communist”) + ‎-ari → ‎kommari

   ‎sosiaalidemokraatti (“social democrat”) + ‎-ari → ‎demari

• In slang clippings, the suffix may cause gemination of the preceding consonant if phonotactically possible.

Inherited from 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.

-ari m (noun-forming suffix, genitive singular -ara, nominative plural -arar)

1. -er, -or; a masculine suffix used to form agent nouns from verb and noun stems

   ‎leika (“to act”) + ‎-ari → ‎leikari (“actor”)

-ari m or f

1. plural of -are

-ari m

1. masculine plural of -aro

-ari m

1. masculine plural of -ario

• -irà, RAI, Rai, ira, rai, ria, rià

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.riː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ri]

Apparently from a dative singular in -ī, the semantic shift being "for Xing" > "to be Xed".

-ārī

1. present passive infinitive of -ō (first conjugation)

-ārī

1. dative/ablative singular of -āris

• -ari, -eri

From Proto-West Germanic *-ārī.

-āri

1. used to form agent nouns

   from nouns: ‎buoch (“book”) + ‎-āri → ‎buochāri (“scholar”)

   from verbs: ‎hëlfan (“to help”) + ‎-āri → ‎hëlfāri (“helper”)

• Middle High German: -ære, -er
  • Alemannic German: -er
  • Bavarian: -er
  • Cimbrian: -ar
  • German: -er
  • Luxembourgish: -er
  • Yiddish: ־ער (-er)

From Proto-Germanic *warjaz.

-āri

1. used to form demonyms

   Baiāri (“Bavarian”)

   Romāri (“Roman”)

• German: -er

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”).^[1]

-ari m

1. a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs

   ‎baka (“to bake”) + ‎-ari → ‎bakari (“baker”)

• -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.

• Icelandic: -ari
• Faroese: -ari
• Norwegian Nynorsk: -ar; (dialectal) -ari, -are, -ær
• Old Swedish: -are, -ari
  • Swedish: -are
• Old Danish: -eræ
  • Danish: -er
  • Norwegian Bokmål: -er
• → Estonian: -r
• → Finnish: -ari, -uri

From Proto-West Germanic *-ārī.

-āri

1. Forms masculine agent nouns from verbs: -er
2. Forms masculine agent nouns from other nouns: -er

• Middle Low German: -ære, -ēre, -ere
  • Low German: -er

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014) Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), 5th edition

-ari m

1. alternative form of -are

From Latin -ārium, -ārius.

-ari

1. -ary (nominal suffix)