Where does “-olos” come from?

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

Ancestry of “-olos”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
2Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
3Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “-olos”

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