The building blocks of English
Affixes
-er4
Forming verbs.
Old English ‑erian, ‑rian, of Germanic origin.
Such verbs have an idea about them of repeated action: batter, clamber, flicker, flitter, flutter, glitter, shimmer, shiver, shudder. Some are imitative of a noise: blatter, chatter, clatter, mutter, splutter, twitter.
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