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Bulgarian
Alternative forms
- -яло (-jalo) — when appended to roots ending in a vowel
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *-dlo, appended to a-, ja- or a/j-conjugation verbs.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ало • (-alo) n
- Deverbal, forming neuter instrumental or effect nouns.
- махам (maham, “to wave”) → махало (mahalo, “pendulum”)
- намятам (namjatam, “to put on, to throw on”) → наметало (nametalo, “mantle”)
- смятам (smjatam, “to reckon, to calculate”) → сметало (smetalo, “abacus”)
- мажа (maža, “to smear”) (a/j-conj.) → мазало (mazalo, “ointment”)
- стържа (stǎrža, “to scrape, to grate”) (a/j-conj.) → стъргало (stǎrgalo, “grater, scraper”)
- стъпя (stǎpja, “to step”) (a/j-conj.) → стъпало (stǎpalo, “sole”)
- Denominal, forming neuter instrumental or effect nouns, probably via an intermediate (often obsolete) factitive verb.
- пушка (puška, “rifle”) → пушкам (puškam, “to fire a rifle”) (obsolete) → пушкало (puškalo, “big rifle”)
- Italian rocchetto (“ratchet”) → кречетало (krečetalo, “ratchet”) (based on the native onomatopoeia крѣчетъ (krěčetŭ, “clap, rattle”))
Derived terms
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Serbo-Croatian
Suffix
-ало (Latin spelling -alo)
- Suffix appended to words to create a neuter noun, usually denoting senses or objects, used as a pejorative or as an abstract noun.
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