Where does “fabel” come from?

fabel (Danish) comes from Latin fābula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

fabel (Danish): fable

Definitions

  1. fable

Ancestry of “fabel”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinfābuladiscourse, narrative
2Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
3Proto-Italic-olos—
4Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
5Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
6Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “fabel”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →Every word from Latin -ulus →Every word from Latin fābula →