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.

-तर (Sanskrit): forms the comparative degree of adjectives

Definitions

  1. forms the comparative degree of adjectives

Ancestry of “-तर”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Aryan*-taras—
2Proto-Indo-Iranian*-taras—
3Proto-Indo-European-terosContrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix

Words derived from “-तर”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -teros →Every word from Proto-Indo-Aryan *-taras →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian *-taras →