-ad
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek -άς (-ás) (genitive -άδος (-ádos)): a suffix forming feminine nouns.
Suffix edit
-ad
- a unit or set (especially of a specified number)
- chiliad, duodecad
- (medicine, anatomy) toward
- tibiad; ulnad
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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:
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Suffix edit
-ad
- (archaic, nonstandard) Used to form past participle form of many weak verbs
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Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation 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
- suffix forming verbal nouns
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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
-ad (Cyrillic spelling -ад)
- Suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, usually a collective noun.
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Further reading edit
- Klajn, Ivan (2003), Tvorba reči u savremenom sprskom jeziku 2: Sufiksacija i Konverzija, Belgrade: SANU, page(s) 22
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin -āte (second-person plural present active imperative ending of first conjugation verbs).
Suffix edit
-ad
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
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Welsh edit
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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
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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.