Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-ilaz

Etymology 1
Formally appears to be a thematicized variant of.

Kroonen (2017) instead derives this from the family of instrumental nominal suffixes, specifically the lambdacized variants  and. The former suffix and the voiced Verner's alternant of the latter would undergo an assimilation to *-lla-. The geminate consonant would have later shortened to make *-la- which was suffixed onto stems with, forming the Germanic agent suffix. Compare 🇨🇬.

Suffix

 * 1)  -er:

Etymology 2
From, thematized from.

Descendants

 * (possibly)
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Etymology 3
Related to the above etymologies. Compare 🇨🇬.

Descendants


Note: Fossilized in several descendants.