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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-ilaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *-elo-.

Kroonen (2017) instead derives this from the Proto-Indo-European *-trom family of instrumental nominal suffixes, specifically the lambdacized variants Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom and Proto-Indo-European *-tlom. The former suffix and the voiced Verner's alternant of the latter would undergo an assimilation to *-lla-. The geminate consonant would have later shortened to make *-la- which was suffixed onto stems with *-yeti, forming the Germanic agent suffix. [1]

Suffix

*-ilaz

  1. agent suffix

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Old English: -el, -ol, -ul
  • Old Frisian:
    • West Frisian: -el
  • Old Saxon: -al, -il
    • Middle Low German: -el
      • Low German: -el
  • Old Frankish:
  • Old High German:

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *-elo-.

Suffix

*-ilaz

  1. diminutive suffix

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2017), “The development of the Proto-Indo-European instrumental suffix in Germanic”, in Indogermanische Forschungen‎, volume 122, issue 1, DOI:10.1515/if-2017-0005, ISSN 0019-7262, pages 105-110
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