Where does “-elis” come from?

-elis (Proto-Italic) comes from Proto-Indo-European -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

Ancestry of “-elis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European-elis—
2Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “-elis”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →Every word from Proto-Indo-European -elis →