Where does “-ana” come from?

-ana (Old Dutch) comes from Proto-West Germanic *-anā, from Proto-Germanic -anē, from Proto-Indo-European -neh₁.

Ancestry of “-ana”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*-anā—
2Proto-Germanic-anēCreates adverbs with ablative direction
3Proto-Indo-European-neh₁—

Words derived from “-ana”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -neh₁ →Every word from Proto-Germanic -anē →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *-anā →