Where does “-तर” come from?
-तर (Sanskrit) comes from Proto-Indo-Aryan *-taras, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *-taras, from Proto-Indo-European -teros — Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix.
Ancestry of “-तर”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | *-taras | — |
| 2 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *-taras | — |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | -teros | Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix |