Where does “-wánts” come from?

-wánts (Proto-Indo-Aryan) comes from Proto-Indo-Iranian -wánts, from Proto-Indo-European -wénts — Forms possessive adjectives from nominal stems.

Ancestry of “-wánts”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Iranian-wántsForms possessive adjectives from nominal stems
2Proto-Indo-European-wéntsForms possessive adjectives from nominal stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -wénts →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian -wánts →