-ad
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ad"
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek -άς (-ás) (genitive -άδος (-ádos)): a suffix forming feminine nouns.
Suffix
-ad
- a unit or set (especially of a specified number)
- chiliad, duodecad
- (medicine, anatomy) toward
- tibiad; ulnad
Derived terms
Related terms
Anagrams
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ad
- (possessive suffix) your (second-person singular informal, single possession)
- (fraction-forming suffix) Appended to a cardinal number to form a fraction.
- (verb-forming suffix) Appended to a stem to form a verb.
- (settlement suffix) Suffix in names of settlements.
- Sarkad, Várad
Usage notes
- (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) Harmonic variants:
- (verb-forming suffix) Harmonic variants:
- (settlement suffix) Harmonic variants:
Derived terms
See also
Norwegian Nynorsk
Suffix
-ad
- (archaic)(nonstandard) Used to form past participle form of many weak verbs
Alternative forms
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the various thematic vowels of verb stems plus Proto-Celtic *-tus, i.e. from *-atus, *-ātus, *-etus, and *-ītus.
Suffix
-ad
- suffix forming verbal nouns
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From the various thematic vowels of verb stems plus Proto-Celtic *-to, i.e. from *-ato, *-āto, *-eto, and *-īto.
Suffix
-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
Suffix
-ad (Cyrillic spelling -ад)
- Suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, usually a collective noun.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Related terms
Swedish
Suffix
-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
Anagrams
Welsh
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Suffix
-ad m (plural -adau)
- show the action of a verb or its result
Etymology 2
From Proto-Brythonic *-ad, from earlier *-atus, a late (British) variant of *-ātus, used to form verbal nouns from Celtic ā-stem verbs.
Suffix
-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
References
- 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
Suffix
-ad
- Plural (3 or more) pronoun marker.
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English lemmas
- English suffixes
- en:Medicine
- en:Anatomy
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒd
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒd/1 syllable
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian suffixes
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk suffixes
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with archaic senses
- Norwegian Nynorsk nonstandard terms
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish suffixes
- Old Irish noun-forming suffixes
- Old Irish inflectional suffixes
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian suffixes
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish suffixes
- Welsh terms with IPA pronunciation
- Welsh lemmas
- Welsh suffixes
- Welsh masculine suffixes
- Welsh terms inherited from Proto-Brythonic
- Welsh terms derived from Proto-Brythonic
- Yapese lemmas
- Yapese suffixes