Where does “-elos” come from?

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

-elos (Proto-Italic): Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns

Definitions

  1. Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns

Ancestry of “-elos”, step by step

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

Words derived from “-elos”

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