-y

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 200 words | Copyright

-y2 suffix orig. of wk. vbs. of the second class, of OE. inf. -ian = OS. -on, OHG. -ōn (Du., G. -en), Goth. -ōn :- Gmc. *-ōjan. By XIII it was restricted to south. and western areas.

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