Where does “-ль” come from?

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

-ль (Ukrainian): Unproductive deverbal suffix used to form nouns denoting a product or a result

Definitions

  1. Unproductive deverbal suffix used to form nouns denoting a product or a result

Ancestry of “-ль”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ukrainian-ь—
2Proto-Slavic-ьForms nouns; From adjectives; From participles
3Proto-Indo-European-isForms nouns from verbs

Words derived from “-ль”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -is →Every word from Proto-Slavic -ь →Every word from Ukrainian -ь →