Talk:-al

-eal
Isn't -eal used in esophageal? --Backinstadiums (talk) 21:53, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Noun-forming -al
I dispute the idea that the -al in burial, arousal, betrothal, arrival etc. is the Romance -al. We don’t see nouns like that in Latin or French at all. I think that it’s actually -els/-else, which regularly forms nouns from verbs. It may also be somewhat blended with the -el that forms tool-names from verbs. &mdash;Correctrix (talk) 04:08, 1 August 2022 (UTC)