-aige

See also: aige and āigē

Champenois

Etymology

Inherited from Old French -age, from Latin -āticum

Suffix

-aige

1. Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result of Xing" or, more rarely, "action related to X".
2. Forming nouns with the sense of "state of being (a) X".
3. Forming collective nouns.

Middle French

Suffix

-aige

1. alternative form of -age

Old French

Suffix

-aige

1. alternative form of -age
   • Ke li Marchis m'envoia son messaige, et li Barrois a por m'amor josté (Conon de Béthune, L'autrier avint en cel autre païs)

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sagiyos (“seeker”).

Suffix

-aige m

1. Forms nouns from existing nouns, indicating a person who engages in an activity associated with the base noun.

   ‎cenn (“end”) + ‎-aige → ‎cennaige (“merchant”)

Inflection

Masculine io-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	-aige	-aigeL	-aigiL
vocative	-aigi	-aigeL	-aigiu
accusative	-aigeN	-aigeL	-aigiuH
genitive	-aigiL	-aigeL	-aigeN
dative	-aigiuL	-aigib	-aigib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Category Old Irish terms suffixed with -aige not found

Descendants

• Irish: -aí, -aidhe, -oidhe, -uidhe (obsolete), -í (slender form), -idhe (obsolete slender form)
• Scottish Gaelic: -iche, -aiche

Suffix

-aige

1. genitive singular feminine of -ach

References

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909], D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 268; reprinted 2017