Where does “-ивний” come from?

-ивний (Ukrainian) comes from Latin -īvus, from Proto-Indo-European -iHwós, from Proto-Indo-European -wós — Creates adjectives from verb stems.

-ивний (Ukrainian): y, -ive: unproductive; forms adjectives from mainly borrowed nouns

Definitions

  1. y, -ive: unproductive; forms adjectives from mainly borrowed nouns

Ancestry of “-ивний”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-īvusAdjective suffix
2Proto-Indo-European-iHwós—
3Proto-Indo-European-wósCreates adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -wós →Every word from Latin -īvus →Every word from Proto-Indo-European -iHwós →