Old Church Slavonic edit

Etymology edit

From дѣти (děti, to do) +‎ -ѣль (-ělĭ)[1]

Noun edit

дѣтѣль (dětělĭf

  1. act, action

Descendants edit

  • Russian: доброде́тель (dobrodételʹ)

References edit

  1. ^ Halla-aho, Jussi (2006) Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology: On the Basis of Old Church Slavic (Slavica Helsingiensia; 26), Helsinki: University of Helsinki, page 222