-льо
Bulgarian
editEtymology
editAgentive suffix, back-formed from the adjectival suffix Proto-Slavic *-livъ (“-ly, -ish”) + -ьо (-jo, “diminutive suffix”). Eventually, its application has been extended to form diminutive counter-parts of masculine nouns in -ъл (-ǎl), -ел (-el), -ал (-al) (from Proto-Slavic *-ъlъ, *-ьlъ, *-alъ).
Suffix
edit-льо • (-ljo) n
- Forms diminutive agent nouns, often with pejorative meaning:
- Synonyms: -ко (-ko); -чо (-čo)
- From verbs:
- сърдя (sǎrdja, “to sulk”) → сръдлив (srǎdliv, “grumpy”) → сръдльо (srǎdljo, “grump”)
- крада (krada, “to steal”) → крадлив (kradliv, “prone to stealing, thievish”) → крадльо (kradljo, “lifter, thief”)
- лъжа (lǎža, “to lie”) → лъжлив (lǎžliv, “prone to lying, bogus, fake”) → лъжльо (lǎžljo, “lair”)
- пикая (pikaja, “to piss”) → пиклив (pikliv, “pissing”) → пикльо (pikljo, “brat, bed-wetter”)
- From nouns:
- From adjectives:
Inflection
editInflection of -льо
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- Radeva, V. (1987): "наставка -льо" in Българското словообразуване, Sofia, p. 15