The "Practical English Usage", by Michael Swan, an OUP book gives following brief answer:
3 Suffixes that form nouns or adjectives
-(i)an-supporter of, language of-(Examples-Darwinian, republican)
nouns-citizen of-(Examples-Parisian, Moroccan.)
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The suffix is -ian.
Pedestrian does not have a prefix. The suffix is -ian. The root word is ped.
A suffix is an ending. The suffixes "an" and "ian" mean of, or belonging to. An example of a suffix meaning belong to is Italian, meaning belonging to Italy.
"ian' is not a prefix. A prefix is at the start of a word.
It's not a real suffix, you know. The real suffix is "ian" meaning a person from or connected to a place or activity or party. An Egyptian is a person from Egypt (Egypt+ian). A Christian is a person who follows the religion of Christ (Christ+ian). A musician is someone who plays music (music+ian). Probably the most widely used of these words is politician (politic+ian). By analogy to this word, people divided the word wrong as polit+ician, and treated -ician as a suffix in such relatively new words as mortician (mort+ician), or beautician (beaut(y)+ician). Similar misdivisions have created the suffix -aholic, as in "shopaholic" from a misdivision of alcoholic as alc+oholic rather than the correct alcohol+ic.
The suffix is -ician...
The suffix is -ian.
Pedestrian does not have a prefix. The suffix is -ian. The root word is ped.
pilotion gayuistian (real word look it up)
A suffix is an ending. The suffixes "an" and "ian" mean of, or belonging to. An example of a suffix meaning belong to is Italian, meaning belonging to Italy.
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The suffix "-ian" typically denotes belonging to or relating to a particular place, group, or characteristic. For example, "Canadian" refers to someone from Canada, and "musician" refers to someone involved in music.
The suffix -tion is used to form nouns from verbs (e.g. perfection), while -ian is used to form adjectives meaning "of" or "relating to" (e.g. Canadian). The suffix -ion is also used to form nouns, similar to -tion but with different word roots (e.g. reception).
of or relating to
"ian' is not a prefix. A prefix is at the start of a word.
It's not a real suffix, you know. The real suffix is "ian" meaning a person from or connected to a place or activity or party. An Egyptian is a person from Egypt (Egypt+ian). A Christian is a person who follows the religion of Christ (Christ+ian). A musician is someone who plays music (music+ian). Probably the most widely used of these words is politician (politic+ian). By analogy to this word, people divided the word wrong as polit+ician, and treated -ician as a suffix in such relatively new words as mortician (mort+ician), or beautician (beaut(y)+ician). Similar misdivisions have created the suffix -aholic, as in "shopaholic" from a misdivision of alcoholic as alc+oholic rather than the correct alcohol+ic.
Human ian