Where does “-lə” come from?

-lə (Azerbaijani) comes from Azerbaijani ilə, from Proto-Uralic elä- — to live.

-lə (Azerbaijani): Suffix appended to nouns to derive verbs with...

Definitions

  1. Suffix appended to nouns to derive verbs with...

Ancestry of “-lə”, step by step

-lə traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Azerbaijani ilə

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Azerbaijaniiləwith
2Proto-Uralicelä-to live

via Proto-Turkic bile

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Turkicbilewith, together, also

Words derived from “-lə”

Every word from Proto-Uralic elä- →Every word from Azerbaijani ilə →