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From Ancient Greek -άς (-ás) (genitive -άδος (-ádos)): a suffix forming feminine nouns.

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1. a unit or set (especially of a specified number)

   chiliad, duodecad

2. (medicine, anatomy) toward

   tibiad; ulnad

• -adic

• D. A., D.A., DA, Da, da

• IPA^(key): [ɒd]
• Rhymes: -ɒd

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1. (possessive suffix) your (second-person singular informal, single possession)

   ház (“house”) → a házad (“your house”)

2. (fraction-forming suffix) Appended to a cardinal number to form a fraction.

   száz (“hundred”) → század (“hundredth”)

3. (verb-forming suffix) Appended to a stem to form a verb.

   olvad (“to melt”)

   szak (“part”) → szakad (“to tear (clothing)”)

4. (settlement suffix) Suffix in names of settlements.

   Sarkad, Várad

• (possessive suffix) Harmonic variants:

  -d is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.

  -ad is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -od is added to the other back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -ed is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -öd is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant

• (fraction-forming suffix) Harmonic variants:

  -d is added to words ending in a vowel

  -ad is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -od is added to some other back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -ed is added to unrounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -öd is added to rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant

• (verb-forming suffix) Harmonic variants:

  -ad is added to back-vowel words

  -ed is added to front-vowel words

• (settlement suffix) Harmonic variants:

  -d is added to words ending in a vowel

  -ad is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -od is added to some other back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -ed is added to unrounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -öd is added to rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant

• Category:Hungarian noun forms
• Appendix:Hungarian possessive suffixes

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1. (archaic, nonstandard) Used to form past participle form of many weak verbs

• -a

• -ed (slender form)
• -ud (often with A II verbs)

• IPA^(key): /að/

From the various thematic vowels of verb stems plus Proto-Celtic *-tus, i.e. from *-atus, *-ātus, *-etus, and *-ītus.

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1. suffix forming verbal nouns

• Irish: -adh
• Manx: -ey
• Scottish Gaelic: -adh

From the various thematic vowels of verb stems plus Proto-Celtic *-to, i.e. from *-ato, *-āto, *-eto, and *-īto.

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1. suffix forming the third-person singular imperative form
2. suffix forming the third-person singular imperfect indicative form
3. suffix forming the third-person singular past subjunctive form
4. suffix forming the third-person singular conditional form of reduplicated and ē-future stems
5. suffix forming the singular passive conjunct preterite form of s-preterite stems

-ad (Cyrillic spelling -ад)

1. Suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, usually a collective noun.

• -čad

From Latin -āte (second-person plural present active imperative ending of first conjugation verbs).

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1. used to form the informal second-person plural imperative mood of -ar verbs

   ‎hablar (“to talk”) + ‎-ad → ‎¡Hablad! (“Talk!”)

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1. -ed, used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.
2. suffix forming past participle

• da, da.

• -iad

• IPA^(key): /ad/

Cognate with Cornish -as.

-ad m (plural -adau)

1. show the action of a verb or its result

   ‎dechrau (“to start, to begin”) + ‎-ad → ‎dechreuad (“start, beginning”)

   ‎teimlo (“to feel”) + ‎-ad → ‎teimlad (“feeling”)

   ‎dileu (“to delete, to erase”) + ‎-ad → ‎dilead (“deletion, erasure”)

From Proto-Brythonic *-ad, from earlier *-atus, a late (British) variant of *-ātus, used to form verbal nouns from Celtic ā-stem verbs.

-ad m (plural -aid)

1. suffix indicating an agent noun: -er, -or

   ‎cadw (“to keep”) + ‎-ad → ‎ceidwad (“keeper”)

   ‎galw (“to call”) + ‎-ad → ‎geilwad (“caller”)

2. person who comes from somewhere or is classed by something, -ian, -ist

   ‎Ewrop (“Europe”) + ‎-ad → ‎Ewropead (“European”)

   ‎Corea (“Korea”) + ‎-ad → ‎Coread (“Korean”)

   ‎Norwy (“Norway”) + ‎-ad → ‎Norwyad (“Norwegian”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “-ad”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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1. Plural (3 or more) pronoun marker.