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Proto-Italic · reconstructed language

*-elos

suffix

Meaning

  1. Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
  2. Forms agentive verbal adjectives and agent nouns
  3. Forms desubstantival adjectives

Etymology / origin

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *-elós, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lós.

  1. *-lós(ine-pro)
  2. -elos (Proto-Italic)
  3. Relations: inh

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