Tamil suffix

-அவர்

-avar
agent

Register

native

Productivity

high

freely attaches to new bases

Attaches to

V · N

allomorphs -avaṉ, -avaḷ

Status

Engineeringdraft

madras_tl

Words built with -அவர்

உழவர்
uḻavar
one who farms
உழு+-அவர்

Does the same job elsewhere

Functional equivalents, placed in their lanes. Same register is noted; most differ.

English

  • -er
    register-matched functional equivalent
  • -ist
    functional equivalent; register differs (N vs L)

French

  • -eur
    register-matched functional equivalent
  • -iste
    functional equivalent; register differs (N vs L)
  • -ien
    register-matched functional equivalent
  • -ant
    register-matched functional equivalent
  • -ier
    register-matched functional equivalent

Hindi

  • -कार
    functional equivalent; register differs (N vs S)
  • -वाला
    register-matched functional equivalent
  • -दार
    functional equivalent; register differs (N vs P)
  • -गर
    functional equivalent; register differs (N vs P)
  • -वादी
    functional equivalent; register differs (N vs S)

Telugu

Tamil

this affix: -அவர்