Where does “-od” come from?

-od (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic -ōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

-od (Old English): Used to form the past participle of class II weak verbs

Definitions

  1. Used to form the past participle of class II weak verbs

Ancestry of “-od”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic-ōdazForms adjectives from nouns, indicating the...
2Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós →Every word from Proto-Germanic -ōdaz →