-aige

See also: aige and āigē

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 *sagyos (“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: -í, -aí

Suffix

-aige

1. genitive singular feminine of -ach

References

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 268