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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek -άς (-ás) (genitive -άδος (-ádos)): a suffix forming feminine nouns.

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-ad

  1. a unit or set (especially of a specified number)
    chiliad, duodecad
  2. (medicine, anatomy) toward
    tibiad; ulnad

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Hungarian

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-ad

  1. (possessive suffix) your (second-person singular informal, single possession)
    ház (house)a házad (your house)
  2. (fraction-forming suffix) -th. Added to a cardinal number to form a fraction.
    száz (hundred)század (hundredth)
  3. (verb-forming suffix) Added to a stem to form a verb.
    olvad (to melt)
    szak (part) + ‎-ad → ‎szakad (to tear (clothing))
  4. (settlement suffix) Suffix in names of settlements.
    Sarkad, Várad

Usage notes

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  • (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:
    -d is added to words ending in a vowel
    -ad is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant
    -od is added to some other back-vowel words ending in a consonant
    -ed is added to unrounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant
    -öd is added to rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant
  • (verb-forming suffix) Variants:
    -ad is added to back-vowel words
    -ed is added to front-vowel words
  • (settlement suffix) Variants:
    -d is added to words ending in a vowel
    -ad is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant
    -od is added to some other back-vowel words ending in a consonant
    -ed is added to unrounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant
    -öd is added to rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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-ad

  1. (archaic, nonstandard) Used to form past participle form of many weak verbs

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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  • -ed (slender form)
  • -ud (often with A II verbs)

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Etymology 1

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From the various thematic vowels of verb stems plus Proto-Celtic *-tus, i.e. from *-atus, *-ātus, *-etus, and *-ītus.

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-ad

  1. suffix forming verbal nouns
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Descendants
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  • Irish: -adh
  • Manx: -ey
  • Scottish Gaelic: -adh

Etymology 2

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From the various thematic vowels of verb stems plus Proto-Celtic *-to, i.e. from *-ato, *-āto, *-eto, and *-īto.

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-ad

  1. suffix forming the third-person singular imperative form
  2. suffix forming the third-person singular imperfect indicative form
  3. suffix forming the third-person singular past subjunctive form
  4. suffix forming the third-person singular conditional form of reduplicated and ē-future stems
  5. suffix forming the singular passive conjunct preterite form of s-preterite stems

Serbo-Croatian

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-ad (Cyrillic spelling -ад)

  1. Suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, usually a collective noun.

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Further reading

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  • Klajn, Ivan (2003), Tvorba reči u savremenom sprskom jeziku 2: Sufiksacija i Konverzija, Belgrade: SANU, page(s) 22

Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin -āte (second-person plural present active imperative ending of first conjugation verbs).

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-ad

  1. used to form the informal second-person plural imperative mood of -ar verbs
    hablar (to talk) + ‎-ad → ‎¡Hablad! (Talk!)

Swedish

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-ad

  1. -ed, used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.
  2. suffix forming past participle

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Welsh

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Etymology 1

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Cognate with Cornish -as.

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-ad m (plural -adau)

  1. show the action of a verb or its result
    dechrau (to start, to begin) + ‎-ad → ‎dechreuad (start, beginning)
    teimlo (to feel) + ‎-ad → ‎teimlad (feeling)
    dileu (to delete, to erase) + ‎-ad → ‎dilead (deletion, erasure)

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Brythonic *-ad, from earlier *-atus, a late (British) variant of *-ātus, used to form verbal nouns from Celtic ā-stem verbs.

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-ad m (plural -aid)

  1. suffix indicating an agent noun: -er, -or
    cadw (to keep) + ‎-ad → ‎ceidwad (keeper)
    galw (to call) + ‎-ad → ‎geilwad (caller)
  2. person who comes from somewhere or is classed by something, -ian, -ist
    Ewrop (Europe) + ‎-ad → ‎Ewropead (European)
    Corea (Korea) + ‎-ad → ‎Coread (Korean)
    Norwy (Norway) + ‎-ad → ‎Norwyad (Norwegian)
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Etymology 3

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Borrowed from English -ate, altered in the same manner as basged (basket).

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-ad m (plural -adau)

  1. (chemistry) -ate, suffix denoting one of a group of related compounds - nitrad (nitrate), sylffad (sulfate).
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Further reading

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  • 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

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-ad

  1. Plural (3 or more) pronoun marker.