Where does “*-taras” come from?

*-taras (Proto-Indo-Aryan) comes from Proto-Indo-Iranian *-taras, from Proto-Indo-European -teros — Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix.

Ancestry of “*-taras”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Iranian*-taras—
2Proto-Indo-European-terosContrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix

Words derived from “*-taras”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -teros →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian *-taras →
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