-ier
variant of -er1 , usually in nouns designating trades:
collier; clothier; furrier; glazier.
-ier2
a noun suffix occurring mainly in loanwords from french, often simply a spelling variant of -eer, with which it is etymologically identical (bombardier; brigadier; financier; grenadier); it is also found on an older and semantically more diverse group of loanwords that have stress on the initial syllable (barrier; courier; courtier; terrier). recent loanwords from french may maintain the modern french pr-nunciation with loss of the final r sound (croupier; dossier; hotelier).
origin
-eer
suffix
(forming nouns) indicating a person who is concerned with or who does something specified auctioneer, engineer, profiteer, mutineer
(forming verbs) to be concerned with something specified electioneer
word origin
-ier
suffix
a variant of -eer brigadier
word origin
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variant of -fy after a consonant: intensify. -ify suffix a variant of -fy intensify derived forms