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Proto-Italic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *-elós, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lós.[1]
Suffix
*-elos m (feminine *-elā, neuter *-elom)
- Froms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
- Froms agentive verbal adjectives and agent nouns
- Froms desubstantival adjectives
Usage notes
- When used as a diminutive suffix, the gender of the diminutive matches that of the base noun it is formed from. *-elos is used for masculine bases, *-elā for feminine ones, and *-elom for neuter ones.
Declension
Declension of *-elos (o-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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*-elos
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*-elōs, -eloi
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| vocative
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*-ele
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*-elōs, -eloi
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| accusative
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*-elom
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*-elons
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| genitive
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*-elosjo, -elī
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*-elom
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| dative
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*-elōi
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*-elois
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| ablative
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*-elōd
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*-elois
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| locative
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*-elei
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*-elois
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ de Goede, Tim (2014) de Vaan, Michiel, editors, Derivational Morphology: New Perspectives on the Italo-Celtic Hypothesis (Research master thesis), Leiden University, pages 14-15
