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-ier
1- variant of -er 1, usually in nouns designating trades:
collier; clothier; furrier; glazier.
-ier
2- a noun suffix occurring mainly in loanwords from French, often simply a spelling variant of -eer, with which it is etymologically identical ( bombardier; brigadier; financier; grenadier ); it is also found on an older and semantically more diverse group of loanwords that have stress on the initial syllable ( barrier; courier; courtier; terrier ). Recent loanwords from French may maintain the modern French pronunciation with loss of the final r sound ( croupier; dossier; hotelier ).
-ier
suffix forming nouns
- a variant of -eer
brigadier
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of -ier1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of -ier1
from Old English -ere -er 1or (in some words) from Old French -ier, from Latin -Äå°ù¾±³Ü²õ -ary
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