-y

1. Condition; state; quality: jealousy.
2. 1. Activity: cookery.
   2. Instance of a specified action: entreaty.
3. 1. Place for an activity: cannery.
   2. Result or product of an activity: laundry.
4. Collection; body; group: soldiery.

[Middle English -ie, from Old French, from Latin -ia. Sense 2b, ultimately from Latin -ium.]