Latvian

Suffix

-nieks, -niece

1. Added to nouns (or sometimes to adjectives and a few verbs) to form masculine (-nieks) or feminine (-niece) agent nouns, referring to a person whose activity or occupation the original term is (like English -er), or who inhabits the place (city, country, etc.) named by the original term (like English -ian).
2. Used to nominalize numerals to refer to numbers in the form of nouns (e.g., when speaking of grades, bills (banknotes), when mentioning numbers as labels that identify entities, etc.)

Related terms

• -niece (feminine counterpart of -nieks)

Synonyms

• -ājs
• -ējs
• -onis

Derived terms