-iere

• -ere

Borrowed from Old French -ier, from Latin -arius. Doublet of the inherited suffix -aio and -aro. Cognate with Sicilian -eri.

-iere m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ieri, feminine -iera)

1. used to form masculine nouns (often of French origin) that represent a person who makes or sells a specified article; -er, -or

   ‎giardino (“garden”) + ‎-iere → ‎giardiniere (“gardener”)

   ‎gioiello (“jewel”) + ‎-iere → ‎gioielliere (“jeweller”)

-iere f

1. plural of -iera

• -ista
• -tore

• -erei

• -ȝer, -iar, -ier, -ior, -yare, -yer, -yere, -yȝere

Probably from -ien (infinitival suffix) +‎ -ere (agent noun); i.e. nouns in -ere built on verbs in -ien; possibly reinforced by Old French -ier once -ie- became a rising diphthong.

• IPA^(key): /-jər(ə)/, /-i.ər(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /-iˌɛ̞ːr(ə)/, /-jɛ̞ːr(ə)/ (with secondary stress)

-iere

1. Forms agent nouns from other nouns or verbs; -er

• Most nouns with this suffix have variant forms in -ere.

• English: -yer, -ier

• “-iē̆r(e, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Tolkien, J. R. R. (1929), “Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad”, in H. W. Garrod, compiler, Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association‎^[1], volume 14, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 121: “It led also to the generalization of luui- as the stem (later M.E. lovyeth sg. and pl., lovyere)”.

-iere

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of -er
2. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of -ir

• -are