1. Etymology of the English suffix -an

Derivations in English

dextran, pyran, abkhazian, aesculapian, afrasian, agnathan, albanian, alexandrian, algerian, american, anatolian, andean, anglian, apiarian, aquarian, arabian, araucanian, arawakan, arcadian, archimedean, armenian, armorican, assyrian, asteroidean, athanasian, australian, austronesian, avestan, avian, babylonian, boeotian, bohemian, brachyuran, bryozoan, bulgarian, burgundian, byelorussian, caddoan, caledonian, cambodian, carian, chibchan, chinookan, chomskyan, cnidarian, coleopteran, comoran, confucian, constantan, contadoran, copernican, cordovan, cosmopolitan, croatian, ctenophoran, culinarian, dalmatian, dantean, delawarean, dipteran, dobuan, ectozoan, elizabethan, elysian, entozoan, estonian, ethiopian, eumetazoan, eurasian, fichtean, franconian, fructosan, furfuran, galactosan, gandhian, gargantuan, genevan, haitian, harappan, hawaiian, helvetian, hemipteran, hexosan, hibernian, hungarian, huxleian, hymenopteran, iberian, indonesian, infusorian, ionian, iowan, iroquoian, isaian, jamaican, joycean, judean, karelian, kievan, korean, laconian, laodicean, latvian, lepidopteran, libyan, ligurian, linnaean, lithuanian, lukan, lusatian, lutheran, lycian, lydian, maccabean, machiavellian, mahometan, malayan, malaysian, mannaean, mannan, marian, mastigophoran, mayan, medusan, melanesian, memphian, mercian, mesozoan, micronesian, millenarian, minoan, minorcan, mitannian, mohammedan, moldavian, monacan, moneran, mongolian, moravian, mozambican, muhammadan, nahuatlan, nebraskan, necessarian, northumbrian, oratorian, ovarian, palladian, papuan, parthian, pennsylvanian, petrarchan, phalansterian, phidian, piman, pisidian, polynesian, pomeranian, procrustean, promethean, protean, protozoan, prussian, poriferan, radian, rhaetian, roscian, ruthenian, sagittarian, salishan, samoan, sanitarian, scandian, scandinavian, sectarian, seleucidan, seminarian, shakespearean, shelleyan, shoshonean, slavonian, sporozoan, stravinskian, tahitian, terpsichorean, theodosian, thespian, thessalonian, tibetan, tongan, umbrian, valetudinarian, vendean, virginian, wesleyan, wildean, yuman, zwinglian, acadian, algonquian

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2. Etymology of the English suffix -an

Derivations in English

dextran, furan, furfuran, mannan, endosulfan, thorianite

Usage

Word found in Modern English