-ești

Usage notes
-ești is widely used indicating a placename, being in fact a plural of the possessive suffix, formerly used for patronyms and currently widespread for family names.

The obsolete form /, was sometimes used before the beginning of the 20th century, while another form sometimes found is. The unrelated Slavic suffixes, are also found.

In some areas in Romania, more than half of the placenames have this suffix. Overall, this ending is part of the names of 14.8% of the Romanian towns and villages (2,038 out of 13,724) and 11.4% of the Moldovan towns and villages (144 out of 1,254).

Etymology 2
A form of the infix -esc-, from, in this case -ēscis. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Suffix

 * 1) Used with a stem to form the second-person singular present of most regular -i (fourth conjugation) verbs. E.g. unești, tușești, ferești, pățești, urăști.