-klas

Etymology
From 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. From (agentive suffix). The Balto-Slavic reconstruction of -tl- is preferable to -dl-, whereby the unusual consonant cluster would have undergone assimilation in Slavic and dissimilation in Baltic. Compare the related 🇨🇬.

Suffix

 * 1) an old agentive suffix, normally applied to unsuffixed verbs