-aige

== Champenois == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French -age, from Latin -āticum === Suffix === -aige Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result of Xing" or, more rarely, "action related to X". Forming nouns with the sense of "state of being (a) X". Forming collective nouns. == Middle French == === Suffix === -aige alternative form of -age == Old French == === Suffix === -aige 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 Forms nouns from existing nouns, indicating a person who engages in an activity associated with the base noun. ‎cenn (“end”) + ‎-aige → ‎cennaige (“merchant”) ==== Inflection ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Irish: -aí, -aidhe, -oidhe, -uidhe (obsolete), -í (slender form), -idhe (obsolete slender form) Scottish Gaelic: -iche, -aiche === Suffix === -aige 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