Meaning of -ard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. -ard (someone who is in a suffixed condition)
   masculine, morpheme
2. appended to nouns to form adjectives characterising someone or something as characterised by that noun
   morpheme
3. -ard appended to placenames to form nouns meaning “one who is of, from or related to a place”
   masculine, morpheme
4. appended to placenames to form relational adjectives meaning “of, from or related to a place”
   morpheme

Examples

“Niça (“Nice”) + -ard → niçard (“person from Nice”)”

“piga (“freckle”) + -ard → pigard (“freckled”)”

“Niça (“Nice”) + -ard → niçard (“of or from Nice”)”

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