-ad
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Ancient Greek -άς (-ás) (genitive -άδος (-ádos)): a suffix forming feminine nouns.
Suffix
[edit]-ad (noun-forming suffix, plural -ads)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Derived from Latin ad (“at”), from Proto-Italic *ad, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd. Coined by British anatomist John Barclay.
Suffix
[edit]-ad (adverb-forming suffix, comparative more -ad, superlative most -ad)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (didn't catch on) -en
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ad
- (possessive suffix) your (second-person singular informal, single possession)
- (fraction-forming suffix) -th. Added to a cardinal number to form a fraction.
- (verb-forming suffix) Added to a stem to form a verb.
- (settlement suffix) Suffix in names of settlements.
Usage notes
[edit]- (possessive suffix) Variants:
- -d is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.
- -ad is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -od is added to the other back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -ed is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -öd is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- (fraction-forming suffix) Variants:
- (verb-forming suffix) Variants:
- (settlement suffix) Variants:
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ad
- (archaic, nonstandard) Used to form past participle form of many weak verbs
Alternative forms
[edit]Old English
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ad
- alternative form of -od
Declension
[edit]See also
[edit]🛈 This feature is under development and may not always produce the expected forms
| infinitive | -ian¹ | -ienne, -ianne |
|---|---|---|
| indicative mood | present tense | past tense |
| first person singular | -iu, -iġe | -ade |
| second person singular | -as³ | -ades³ |
| third person singular | -aþ² | -ade |
| plural | -iaþ² | -adun, -adon |
| subjunctive | present tense | past tense |
| singular | -iġe | -ade |
| plural | -iġen¹ | -aden¹ |
| imperative | ||
| singular | -a | |
| plural | -iaþ² | |
| participle | present | past |
| -iende | -ad | |
¹In Northumbrian, final -n was regularly lost from these forms
²In Late Northumbrian, final -þ was frequently changed to -s
³In Mercian, final -t was sometimes added to these forms due to West Saxon influence
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From the various thematic vowels of verb stems plus Proto-Celtic *-tus, i.e. from *-atus, *-ātus, *-etus, and *-ītus.
Suffix
[edit]-ad m (forms the genitive singular in -(a)tho)
- suffix forming verbal nouns
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From the various thematic vowels of verb stems plus Proto-Celtic *-to, i.e. from *-ato, *-āto, *-eto, and *-īto.
Suffix
[edit]-ad
- suffix forming the third-person singular imperative form
- suffix forming the third-person singular imperfect indicative form
- suffix forming the third-person singular past subjunctive form
- suffix forming the third-person singular conditional form of reduplicated and ē-future stems
- suffix forming the singular passive conjunct preterite form of s-preterite stems
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ād f (Cyrillic spelling -а̄д, noun-forming suffix)
- suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, usually a collective noun
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Klajn, Ivan (2003), Tvorba reči u savremenom srpskom jeziku 2: Sufiksacija i konverzija [Word formation in modern Serbian 2: Suffixation and conversion], Belgrad: Zavod za Udžbenike i Nastavna Sredstva, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin -āte (second-person plural present active imperative ending of first conjugation verbs).
Suffix
[edit]-ad
- used to form the informal second-person plural imperative mood of -ar verbs
Swedish
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ad
- -ed, used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.
- suffix forming past participle
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Welsh
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ad m (plural -adau)
- show the action of a verb or its result
Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Brythonic *-ad, from earlier *-atus, a late (British) variant of *-ātus, used to form verbal nouns from Celtic ā-stem verbs.
Suffix
[edit]-ad m (plural -aid)
- suffix indicating an agent noun: -er, -or
- person who comes from somewhere or is classed by something, -ian, -ist
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Borrowed from English -ate, altered in the same manner as basged (“basket”).
Suffix
[edit]-ad m (plural -adau)
- (chemistry) -ate, suffix denoting one of a group of related compounds - nitrad (“nitrate”), sylffad (“sulfate”).
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “-ad”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Yapese
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ad
- Plural (3 or more) pronoun marker.
- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English lemmas
- English suffixes
- English noun-forming suffixes
- English countable nouns
- English terms with collocations
- English terms derived from Proto-Italic
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂éd
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms coined by John Barclay
- English coinages
- English adverb-forming suffixes
- en:Medicine
- en:Anatomy
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒd
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒd/1 syllable
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian suffixes
- Hungarian verb-forming suffixes
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk suffixes
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with archaic senses
- Norwegian Nynorsk nonstandard terms
- Old English lemmas
- Old English suffixes
- Old English class 2 weak verbs
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish suffixes
- Old Irish noun-forming suffixes
- Old Irish masculine suffixes
- Old Irish inflectional suffixes
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian suffixes
- Serbo-Croatian noun-forming suffixes
- Serbo-Croatian feminine suffixes
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish suffix forms
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish suffixes
- Welsh terms with IPA pronunciation
- Welsh lemmas
- Welsh suffixes
- Welsh noun-forming suffixes
- Welsh masculine suffixes
- Welsh terms inherited from Proto-Brythonic
- Welsh terms derived from Proto-Brythonic
- Welsh terms borrowed from English
- Welsh terms derived from English
- cy:Chemistry
- Yapese lemmas
- Yapese suffixes