Where does “*-anā” come from?

*-anā (Proto-West Germanic) comes from Proto-Germanic -anē, from Proto-Indo-European -neh₁.

Ancestry of “*-anā”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic-anēCreates adverbs with ablative direction
2Proto-Indo-European-neh₁—

Words derived from “*-anā”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -neh₁ →Every word from Proto-Germanic -anē →