-tóir

See also: toir and tóir

Irish

Alternative forms

  • -teoir (slender form)
  • -thóir
  • -adóir

Etymology

From Old Irish, from Latin -tor.

Suffix

-tóir m

  1. -er (suffix appended to words to create an agent noun, indicating a person who does (or a thing that does) something)
    múin (teach, verb) + -tóirmúinteoir (teacher)
    inneall (engine, noun) + -tóirinnealtóir (engineer)

Declension

Derived terms

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