-ery
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman and Old French -erie, a suffix forming abstract nouns.
The suffix first occurs in loans from Old French into Middle English, but becomes productive within English by the 16th century, in some instances properly a combination of -er with -y as in bakery, brewery, but also as a single suffix in terms like slavery, machinery.
Suffix[edit]
-ery
- Trade or craft of
- Place of
- Class or group, collection of
- Characteristic of
