-an

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• British, Southern, Standard: /ən/
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From Middle English -an, regularly -ain, -ein, -en, from Old French -ain, -ein, or before i, -en (modern French -ain, -en, feminine -aine, -enne), from Latin -ānus (feminine -āna), which forms adjectives of belonging or origin from a noun, being -nus [cognate with Ancient Greek -νος (-nos)] preceded by a vowel, from Proto-Indo-European *-nós. Cognate with English -en. Compare with -in, -ine.

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: ـِيّ (-iyy) — of or pertaining to
• Catalan: -à — of or pertaining to
• Czech: -ský — of or pertaining to
• Finnish: -lainen — of or pertaining to
• Finnish: -läinen — of or pertaining to
• Galician: -an — of or pertaining to
• Galician: -á — of or pertaining to
• German: -isch — of or pertaining to
• Hungarian: -i — of or pertaining to
• Hungarian: -s — of or pertaining to
• Ido: -an- — of or pertaining to
• Interlingua: -an — of or pertaining to
• Italian: -ano — of or pertaining to
• Latin: -ānus — of or pertaining to
• Portuguese: -ão — of or pertaining to
• Portuguese: -ano — of or pertaining to
• Portuguese: -ana — of or pertaining to
• Spanish: -ano — of or pertaining to
• Swedish: -sk — of or pertaining to
• Swedish: -isk — of or pertaining to
• Hungarian: -ász — occupational suffix
• Hungarian: -ész — occupational suffix
• Hungarian: -ikus — occupational suffix
• Interlingua: -ano — occupational suffix
• Interlingua: -ana — occupational suffix