-aj

• -ai, -anj, -anji, -agni

Earlier attested as -agni. Nominal suffix -aj (“-s; he; of/to the/him/his”) denotes tribal/family name patronyms and toponyms; meaning “descendant/inhabitant of”.

Cognate to Albanian anë f (“bloodline”).

• IPA^(key): /aj/ (Standard, -aj)
• IPA^(key): /aɲi/, /aɲi/, /aɲ/ (-agni, -anji, -anj)

-a(n)j m

1. (patronymic) descendant of; 's, -s

   (christian) Adam (Adam) +‎ -aj (-s (descendant))

   (muslim) Adem (Adam) +‎ -aj (-s (descendant))

   (christian) Gjergj (George) +‎ -aj (-s (descendant))

   (christian) Gjon (John) +‎ -aj (-s (descendant))

   (muslim, krypto-christian) Isuf (Joseph) +‎ -aj (-s (descendant))

   (muslim) Jusuf (Joseph) +‎ -aj (-s (descendant))

   (christian) Palush (Paul) +‎ -aj (-s (descendant))

2. (toponymic) inhabitant of; -an (as in Albanian), -ese

• anë f (“bloodline”)
• anë f (“side, edge, verge, brink, region, etc.”)
• ai m (“he, that”)
• ajo f (“she, that”)

• IPA^(key): [ɒj]

-aj

1. (noun-forming suffix) Added to an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root to form a noun.

   kacaj (“laughter”)

• No longer productive. Harmonic variants:

  -aj is added to back vowel stems

  -ej is added to front vowel stems

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

From French -age, from Old French -age, from Latin -āticum.

• IPA^(key): /aʒ/

-aj n (plural -aje)

1. -age

From Proto-Slavic *-ějь.

-aj (Cyrillic spelling -ај)

1. Suffix appended to words to create a masculine noun, usually denoting a result of an action or an object.

• -jaj
• -ljaj