Where does โ€œ-๐‘€…โ€ come from?

-๐‘€… (Prakrit) comes from Sanskrit -เคคเคฐ, from Proto-Indo-Aryan *-taras, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *-taras, from Proto-Indo-European -teros โ€” Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix.

Ancestry of โ€œ-๐‘€…โ€, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sanskrit-เคคเคฐforms the comparative degree of adjectives
2Proto-Indo-Aryan*-tarasโ€”
3Proto-Indo-Iranian*-tarasโ€”
4Proto-Indo-European-terosContrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix

Words derived from โ€œ-๐‘€…โ€

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -teros โ†’Every word from Sanskrit -เคคเคฐ โ†’Every word from Proto-Indo-Aryan *-taras โ†’