-el

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 108 words | Copyright

-el1 repr. OE. -el, -ela, -ele :- Gmc. *-ilaz, *-ilan-, *-ilōn, usu. retained as -LE1, but cf. kernel.

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