-erij

Etymology
From, a suffix forming abstract nouns. The suffix first occurs in loans from French, but became productive within Dutch. Similar to English, Afrikaans , German , French.

Suffix

 * 1) An activity
 * 2) A place associated with an activity or profession
 * 3) A place containing a collection, class or group
 * 1) A place containing a collection, class or group
 * 1) A place containing a collection, class or group

Usage notes
Many cases of this suffix were probably formed by attaching to agent nouns that already ended in, thereby forming a place associated with the agent noun. It may not always be easy to judge whether was attached directly to a verb, or  was attached to an agent noun. For example, may be interpreted as a place (-erij) where brewing  takes place, but equally as a place (-ij) associated with a brewer. Both analyses are probably equally valid, synchronically.