-iere

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.re/
• Rhymes: -ɛre
• Hyphenation: -iè‧re

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

   Alternative form: -ere

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

-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 to verbs in -ien, perhaps on the model of how Old English formations in Old English -end built on Class 2 weak verbs retain the -i- of the verb (e.g. lovye(n) → lovyere like Old English lufian → lufiend). In later use, 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

• Many nouns with this suffix have variant forms in -ere; similarly, some nouns in -ere, especially those derived from verbs in -ien, have variant forms with this suffix.

• English: -yer, -ier

• “-iē̆r(e, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Jespersen, Otto (1942), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎^[1], volume VI: Morphology, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 14.51, page 238.
• Tolkien, J. R. R. (1929), “Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad”, in H. W. Garrod, compiler, Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association‎^[2], 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