-cus

Etymology
From, from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

PIE *-ko- on noun stems carried the meaning 'characteristic of, like, typical, pertaining to', and on adjectival stems it acted emphatically.

Suffix


This suffix survives in inherited forms and became productive through its derivations (cf. infra) by metanalysis.