-air

From Middle French -aire, from Latin -ārium. In many cases borrowed or derived from French -aire.

• IPA^(key): /ɛːr/

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-air

1. -ary; of or pertaining to

From Old Irish -aire, from Old French -aire, ultimately from Latin -ārium, the accusative of -ārius (“-er”, agent suffix).

• IPA^(key): [arʲ]

-air

1. Forming nouns from nouns and adjectives with the sense of ‘person or thing connected or involved with, belonging to, having’

   ‎clàrsach (“harp”) + ‎-air → ‎clàrsair (“harpist”)

   ‎iasg (“fish”) + ‎-air → ‎iasgair (“fisherman”)

   ‎facal (“word, phrase”) + ‎-air → ‎faclair (“dictionary, vocabulary”)

   ‎Samhain (“Halloween”) + ‎-air → ‎samhnair (“trick-or-treater”)

2. Forming nouns from verbs with the sense of ‘person or thing which does’

   sgrubair

• -iche
• -adair
• -ear