Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-ilazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ilaz_2
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From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017Derivational morphology: new perspectives on the Italo-Celtic hypothesisTimde Goede2014(Research master thesis).*-ló-sforms agent nouns from verbal roots; forms diminutive nouns from noun stems; forms adjectives with the sense “pertaining to …”-ulusforms diminutives of nouns
suffixnounmasculinea-stemforms diminutives and hypocoristics, especially nouns denoting small, young, or affectionate versions of the baseforms agent nouns and person nouns, denoting someone associated with or characterized by the baseProbably from pre-Germanic *-i-lo-s / *-il-o-s, from the widespread Proto-Indo-European denominal/adjectival suffix *-ló-s, here specialized in Proto-Germanic as a diminutive and agent suffix similar to Latin -ulus of the same origin de Goede 2014: 14–15. Ringe 2017: 149 identifies a PIE diminutive suffix *-el- which seems to likely be derived from the same suffix. This suffix is formally identical with the instrument suffix *-ilaz, but the two are historically distinct.