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Where does “-ια” come from?

-ια (Ancient Greek) comes from Proto-Indo-European -h₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

-ια (Ancient Greek): Added to stems of adjectives, rarely to the stems...

Definitions

  1. Added to stems of adjectives, rarely to the stems...

Ancestry of “-ια”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

Words derived from “-ια”

  • matter
  • company
  • evidence
  • influence
  • material
  • distance
  • potential
  • memory
  • science
  • existence
  • principle
  • justice
  • Germany
  • strategy
  • scientific
  • principal
  • absence
  • victory
  • healthy
  • sympathy
  • conscience
  • residence
  • accuracy
  • prince
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