{{Short description|Noun that represents the agent of some action}}{{confused|agent (grammar)}}In linguistics, an agent noun (in Latin, ) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity that does that action.WEB,www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/agent-noun, agent noun, Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, December 11, 2014, For example, driver is an agent noun formed from the verb drive.BOOK, Metonymy and metaphor in grammar, 25, 101, Klaus-Uwe, Panther, Linda L., Thornburg, Antonio, Barcelona, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009, 978-90-272-2379-1, Usually, derived in the above definition has the strict sense attached to it in morphology, that is the derivation takes as an input a lexeme (an abstract unit of morphological analysis) and produces a new lexeme. However, the classification of morphemes into derivational morphemes (see word formation) and inflectional ones is not generally a straightforward theoretical question, and different authors can make different decisions as to the general theoretical principles of the classification as well as to the actual classification of morphemes presented in a grammar of some language (for example, of the agent noun-forming morpheme).

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An agentive suffix or agentive prefix is commonly used to form an agent noun from a verb. Examples:

English: -er, -or, -ian, -ist
Basque: ( ‘student’ from ‘learn’)
Dutch: , , , , , Finnish: / ( ‘speak’, ‘speaker’; ‘hit’, ‘hitter’); (borrowed from ‘-or’/’er’, probably via German)
French: (m.); ,NEWS, Martine, Delvaux, Benoit, MelanÃ§on, Pour ou contre le mot Â« autrice Â» ?, For or against the word “author“?, Radio-Canada, French, QuÃ©bec, 2019-08-21, 2024-03-20,ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/plus-on-est-de-fous-plus-on-lit/segments/entrevue/129118/autrice-auteure-definition-histoire-dictionnaire, See also (wikt:fr:-eure). , , (f.)
Georgian: - ... - (), as in ( ‘gardener’) from ( ‘garden’); otherwise the nominalization of the present participle (formed with many possible circumfixes) may occur.BOOK, Aronson, Howard I., Georgian: A Reading Grammar. Corrected edition, Columbus, Ohio, Slavica Publishers, 1990, 119â€“120,
German: , , , , , , , , , (may be compounded with the feminine ending )
Greek: , Hungarian: no specific agentive suffix, the nominalization of present participle (suffix: , according to vowel harmony) is used instead; examples: (’worker’), (’repairman’), (’leader’, ‘driver’, ‘electrical conductor’)
Irish: -Ã³ir (broad), -eoir (slender), -aÃ (broad), -Ã (slender)
Khasi: prefix or , for example ‘to dance’, ‘dancer’; ‘to steal’, ‘thief’
Latin: (m.) / (f.) / (n.) / , , (adj.) as in / / / ; (m.) / (f.) / (n.) / , , (adj.) as in / / / ; see also: Maori: Persian: |rtl=yes}} (): from present roots; as in |rtl=yes}} (; ‘speaker’) from |rtl=yes}} (; to speak) / |rtl=yes}} () : from past roots; as in |rtl=yes}} (; ‘wanter’) from |rtl=yes}} (; ‘to want’). / |rtl=yes}} (): from nouns; as in |rtl=yes}} (; ‘worker’) from |rtl=yes}} (; ‘work’).WEB,www.parsi.wiki/fa/wiki/topicdetail/e1e46578abf04cdabe3aa8b782029553, “Agent noun-Ø§Ø³Ù… ÙØ§Ø¹Ù„” in Dehkhoda Dictionary, Parsi Wiki,
Polish: see table
Quechua: ( ‘to play’, ‘player’)
Russian: or (m.) / or (f.) as in ‘student’; (m.) / (f.) as in ‘teacher’WEB,masterrussian.com/nounsandcases/suffixes.htm, Suffixes of Russian Nouns - Examples and Translation of Russian Suffixes, masterrussian.com, 2017-02-15,
Spanish: , , , Turkish: ( ‘florist’ from ‘flower’)
Welsh: (m.), (f.)

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