Where does “ধার্মিক” come from?
ধার্মিক (Bengali) comes from Bengali -ইক, from Sanskrit -इक, from Lithuanian -ikas, from Proto-Indo-European -iḱos — -y, -ic.
ধার্মিক (Bengali): religious
Ancestry of “ধার্মিক”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Bengali | -ইক | adjectival suffix |
| 2 | Sanskrit | -इक | adjectival suffix; doer |
| 3 | Lithuanian | -ikas | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -iḱos | -y, -ic |