Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-teľь

Etymology
Compounded from the original athematic suffix (still preserved in,  and ) and. Traces of the original consonantal-stem inflection are well preserved in plural forms, such as the Old Church Slavonic nominative plural /, but genitive plural  / ).

formant probably continues, most likely as a result of dissimilation in words such as <  <. The alternation l : r could also be inherited, because it is already found in Proto-Indo-European, not only in common words, but also in other suffixes, such as :,  : , which form nomina instrumenti.

Compare.

Descendants

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