Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/-elos

Proto-Italic

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *-elós, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lós.[1]

    Suffix

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    *-elos

    1. Used to form diminutives.

    Descendants

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    • Latin: -ulus, -lus
    • Faliscan: -𐌄𐌋𐌏𐌔 (-elos)

    References

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    1. ^ de Goede, Tim (2014) de Vaan, Michiel, editors, Derivational Morphology: New Perspectives on the Italo-Celtic Hypothesis (Research master thesis)[1], Leiden University, pages 14-15