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Where does “-μᾰ” come from?

-μᾰ (Ancient Greek) comes from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.

-μᾰ (Ancient Greek): "suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an...

Definitions

  1. "suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an...

Ancestry of “-μᾰ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs

Words derived from “-μᾰ”

  • system
  • times
  • systems
  • team
  • Times
  • climate
  • poem
  • theme
  • dramatic
  • drama
  • trauma
  • diplomatic
  • dramatically
  • systemic
  • traumatic
  • pragmatic
  • diplomacy
  • metric
  • ecosystem
  • wartime
  • phantom
  • daytime
  • thematic
  • climatic
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