Where does “цвіль” come from?

цвіль (Ukrainian) comes from Ukrainian -ль, from Ukrainian -ь, from Proto-Slavic -ь, from Proto-Indo-European -is — Forms nouns from verbs.

цвіль (Ukrainian): mould, mildew

Definitions

  1. mould, mildew

Ancestry of “цвіль”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ukrainian-льUnproductive deverbal suffix used to form nouns denoting a product or a result
2Ukrainian-ь—
3Proto-Slavic-ьForms nouns; From adjectives; From participles
4Proto-Indo-European-isForms nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -is →Every word from Proto-Slavic -ь →Every word from Ukrainian -ь →
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