Where does “-èt” come from?

-èt (Franco-Provençal) comes from Latin -ittus, from Proto-Italic -tos, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

-èt (Franco-Provençal): forms diminutives

Definitions

  1. forms diminutives

Ancestry of “-èt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-ittusdiminutive suffix, used to create nouns
2Proto-Italic-tosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
3Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós →Every word from Latin -ittus →Every word from Proto-Italic -tos →
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