-ieren
See also: Ieren
German edit
Alternative forms edit
- -iren (obsolete, used alternatively until ca. 1900)
Etymology edit
From Middle High German -ieren, extracted by rebracketing of verbs borrowed from (Old) French, such as parlieren (Old French parlier + -en), or Italian, such as spazieren (Italian spaziare + -en).
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-ieren
- Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found mainly as a rendering of French, Italian, and Latin suffixes like -ire and -iare in borrowings, but it is also sometimes applied with a factitive meaning to German stems.
- Möbel (“furniture”) + -ieren → möblieren (“to furnish”)
- Zentrum (“centre”) + -ieren → zentrieren (“to centre”)
- halb (“half”) + -ieren → halbieren (“to halve”)
- Buchstabe (“letter”) + -ieren → buchstabieren (“to spell”)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Middle High German edit
Etymology edit
From Old French -ier.
Suffix edit
-ieren
- used in verbs, indicating the action of doing something related to the first part of the word