Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-teros

Usage notes
In Proto-Indo-European, X-teros meant "one which is especially X", "one which is more X than other things", "one which is X as opposed to something else". Compare:
 * Sanskrit: →
 * Greek: →  (as opposed to "left")
 * Latin: →  (literally "the mother one").

In some daughters the suffix was grammaticalized as the marker of a comparative degree in adjectives:
 * Greek: →

In some daughters it attracted various pronominal adjectives (determiners), i.e. words meaning "other": or possessives:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Latin: al-ter
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌽-𐌸𐌰𐍂
 * Greek: ἡμέ-τερος
 * Latin: nos-ter
 * Old Irish:

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