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Where does “-g” come from?

-g (Proto-West Germanic) comes from Proto-Germanic -gaz, from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos — -y, -ic.

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Ancestry of “-g”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic-gaz-y
2Proto-Indo-European-ḱos-y, -ic

Words derived from “-g”

  • silly
  • thorny
  • silliness
  • glitch
  • wiseacre
  • sillily
  • sely
  • thorniness
  • Gemütlichkeit
  • glitchy
  • milchig
  • schrecklichkeit
  • thornily
  • vierbein
  • wazzock
  • glitchless
  • microglitch
  • sillyish
  • glitchiness
  • glitchily
  • sillyhead
  • glitchfest
  • sillyfic
  • glitchcore
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos →