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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Variant of *-lъ, attached onto u-stems. Comparable with Latin -ulus.
Suffix
*-ъlъ m
- Forms instrumental or resultant nouns
- *pьkъlъ (“hell, pitch”) ← Proto-Indo-European *peyk- (“to carve, to hew”)
- *ǫgъlъ (“angle”) ← Proto-Indo-European *h₂eng- (“to curve”)
- *čexъlъ (“cap, sleeper, cover”) ← of uncertain origin
Declension
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2014) “2.11.50 *-ъlъ, *-ъlo < *-ula; *-ъla < *-ulā”, in Slavic Nominal Word-formation: Proto-Indo-European Origins and Historical Development (Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft; 3), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 164