Where does “fabhal” come from?
fabhal (Irish) comes from Old Irish fáball, 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.
fabhal (Irish): fable
Definitions
- fable
Ancestry of “fabhal”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Irish | fáball | fable, fiction, romance |
| 2 | Latin | fābula | discourse, narrative |
| 3 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |