-as

See also Appendix:Variations of "as"

Esperanto

Etymology

The Esperanto suffixes -as, -is, -os, -us are related, and appear to have been inspired by previous language projects:

This play of vowels is not an original idea of Zamenhof's: -as, -is, -os are found for the three tenses of the infinitive in Faiguet's system of 1765; -a, -i, -o without a consonant are used like Z's -as, -is, -os by Rudelle (1858); Courtonne in 1885 had -am, -im, -om in the same values, and the similarity with Esperanto is here even more perfect than in the other projects, as -um corresponds to Z's -us. —An International Language (1928)

The vowel of -as is likely cognate with the Latin present, as in amat "s/he loves", and the corresponding present infinitive amare, permitting the natural (for an European) -ant ending. i could come from past tense in Latin "ami, amisti".

Suffix

-as

1. ending of the present tense in verbs.

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɒʃ/

Suffix

-as

1. Added to a noun to form an adjective meaning "having something, a quality".

   haj (“hair”) → hajas (“covered with hair”)

2. Added to a noun to form an occupation or a collective noun.

   fazék (“pot”) → fazekas (“potter”)

3. Added to an ordinal number to form a digit or figure.

   három (“three”) → hármas (“the digit or figure 3”)

Usage notes

• Member of the following suffix cluster:

  -s is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.

  -os is added to some back vowel words ending in a consonant

  -as is added to other back vowel words ending in a consonant

  -es is added to unrounded front vowel words ending in a consonant

  -ös is added to rounded front vowel words ending in a consonant

See also

• Category:Hungarian adjectives suffixed with -as
• Category:Hungarian nouns suffixed with -as
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

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Ido

Suffix

-as

1. ending of the present tense in verbs

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Old English

Etymology

Perhaps from the Proto-Germanic accusative plural ending *-anz, with regularly lost -n- before a fricative, or perhaps from the nominative plural *-ōs, a voiceless variety of the regular ending *-ōz. Akin to Old Saxon -os (Low German -s), Dutch -s, Swedish -ar.

Suffix

-as

1. Nominative and accusative case ending, originally of a-stem masculine nouns, later extended to other nouns.

Descendants

• English: -s.

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Spanish

Suffix

-as

1. suffix indicating the second-person singular present indicative of -ar.
2. suffix indicative the second-person singular present subjunctive of -er verbs and -ir verbs

See also

• -es