Noun agentis
An agent noun (from the Latin noun "name" and agentis, genitive of the participle of transient "do act") is a noun (noun) derived from a verb or a noun derived and an affiliated entity called. For example, the verb “run” can be used to form the deverbal noun agentis “runner”, and the noun “city” the denominational noun agentis “townspeople”.
Nomina agentis are often formed in German with the following suffixes , which are also called word formation morphemes or derivatives :
- { -er } (often with umlaut): hunt - hunter; Act - perpetrator
- { -ler } or { -ner } (also often with umlaut): act - dealer; Customs - customs officers
- { -el } (often with umlauted ablaut): weiben - weibel; offer - Büttel; to drink - drink
- { -ist }: Police - cop
- { -it }, { -ite }
- { -an }, { -an }, { -ian }
Latin:
- { -or } (also Greek): director
- { -a-nt }: Protester
- { -e-nt }: Student
- { -arius }, { -ar }: biblothecarius - German librarian
French
- { -eur } / { -ör } / { -euse }: masseur / masseur, hairdresser
- { -ier }: Foreman , cannon - gunner
Nomina agentis are often generic masculine in gender- sensitive languages, but can be converted to feminine in some languages .
See also
literature
- Heike Baeskow: Derived personal names in German and English (= Studia Linguistica Germanica . No. 62 ). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, ISBN 3-11-017382-4 , pp. 3–5, 71 ff . ( Reading sample in the Google book search).
- Walter Henzen : German word formation. Halle on the Saale in 1947; 3rd edition Tübingen 1965 (= collection of short grammars of Germanic dialects B; supplementary series. Volume 5).
Web links
Wiktionary: Noun Agentis - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
