-iser / -izer
verb-forming suffix
- SOUND
- Middle English -ize follows Old French -iser and -izer.
- MEANING
- The verb-forming function continues.
- SCHOLAR
- Douglas Harper
- CONFIDENCE
- established
CANONICAL LANGUAGE GRAPH
TRACE A WORD ↗make, become, practice, or perform
Productive English verb suffix transmitted through French and Latin from Greek.
ANCESTRAL EDGES
verb-forming suffix
DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
discover, formulate, state, or study etymologies
TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
RECORDED EVIDENCE
The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
EDITORIAL REUSE