Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/-astrijā

Etymology

 * multiple origins have been suggested, but none has received widespread approval.
 * Despite the similarity of the suffix to, borrowing from it is now usually rejected because of the large number of Old English formations where this suffix is applied to native roots.
 * Davis and Bammesberger derive it from earlier suffixed with, from , itself a suffixation of ,  with.
 * Gąsiorowski instead considers this suffix to be an extension of earlier, with replacement of the unproductive ī/jō-stem endings with more common ōn-stem endings. He suggests that originates from , a zero-grade form of  suffixed with ; he also suggests a relation to 🇨🇬 (see ).

Suffix

 * 1) -ress: