-el

• IPA^(key): /əl/, /l̩/

From Middle English -el, from Old English -el, from Proto-Germanic *-ilaz.

• -le, -al

-el

2. Suffix forming nouns, originally denoting an instrument, from verbs, usually spelt -le except after n and e.

   runnel, shovel, dotel

4. Diminutive suffix in words of Germanic origin.

   Synonyms: (suffixes) -cule, -ee, -et, -ette, -icle, -ie, -kin, -le, -let, -ling, -ole, -ule, -y, (prefixes) mini-, micro-, nano-

   hatchel, hovel, gomerel

From Middle English -el, a merger of two suffixes:

• Old English -el (diminutive suffix)
• Old French -el (diminutive suffix), from Latin -ellus

-el

1. Suffix, originally diminutive, in words of mostly Romance origin.

   cupel, chapel, tunnel

• -le, LE, Le, LαE, le

-el

1. Used on verbs, together with the prefix k-, to indicate that the first person singular (I) is the actor and the second person singular (you) is the object of the verb.

   n'kezalmô

   I love

   k'kezalmel

   I love you (singular)

The suffix is spelled -ol by some writers.

• -elba

Cf. French -el (e.g. sexuel, individuel, industriel)

-el

1. To make an adjective of a noun; -al

   ‎broad (“nation”) + ‎-el → ‎broadel (“national”)

Likely borrowed from English -al.

-el

1. Forming adjectives from nouns: -al

   ‎elven (“element”) + ‎-el → ‎elvennel (“elemental”)

   ‎breus (“judgement”) + ‎-el → ‎breusel (“critical”)

Inherited from Old Czech -el, from Proto-Slavic *-ьlъ, *-ъlъ. This suffix should be etymologically masculine. In the Old Czech, it was and the similar feminine suffix was -ěl, but these two suffixes have merged into one today. See e.g. Old Czech kúpěl –> koupel (instead of expected koupěl).

• IPA^(key): [ ɛl]

-el m anim or m inan or f (noun-forming suffix)

1. forms nouns

   ‎koza + ‎-el → ‎kozel

   ‎pleva + ‎-el → ‎plevel

   ‎koupat + ‎-el → ‎koupel

masculine animate (hard)

masculine inanimate (hard or soft)

feminine (soft)

• -el in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

From French -el, from Latin -ālis.

• IPA^(key): /el/, [ˈɛlˀ]

-el

1. -al

   Synonym: -al

(Adjectives)

(Neuter nouns)

• “-el” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Dutch *-el, from Proto-West Germanic *-il, from Proto-Germanic *-ilaz. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. probably more than one etymology involved

• IPA^(key): /əl/, [əɫ], [ɔɫ]

-el (unproductive)

2. forms diminutive nouns

   ‎koren + ‎-el → ‎korrel

4. forms noun denoting an instrument

   Synonym: -er

   ‎sluiten + ‎-el → ‎sleutel

• IPA^(key): /-el/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: -el

-el

1. in [...] way

   -el is the ending for correlatives of manner or degree

-el f

1. postpositive form of el

Inherited from Old French -el, from Latin -ālis. Doublet of -al.

• IPA^(key): /ɛl/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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-el (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -elle, masculine plural -els, feminine plural -elles)

1. forms adjectives from nouns: -al

• → Danish: -el
• → Dutch: -eel
  • Afrikaans: -eel
  • → Indonesian: -il
• → German: -ell
• → Norwegian Bokmål: -ell
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: -ell
• → Swedish: -ell
• → Turkish: -sel
• → Yiddish: ־על (-el)

• -al

From Middle High German -el, from Old High German -il, direct descendant of Proto-West Germanic *-il, from Proto-Germanic *-ilaz, or from dialectal variants of -lein, which as well ultimately go back to *-ilaz or to *-ilingaz.

• IPA^(key): /əl/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

-el n or m

1. (productive, regional, Upper German) suffix in diminutives

   ‎Kind (“child”) + ‎-el → ‎Kindel (“little child, darling”)

   ‎Haus (“house”) + ‎-el → ‎Häusel (“little house”)

2. suffix in nouns indicating appurtenance, i.e. accessories or things subordinate to a bigger entity

   ‎Arm (“arm”) + ‎-el → ‎Ärmel (“sleeve”)

   ‎Eiche (“oak”) + ‎-el → ‎Eichel (“acorn”)

3. suffix in agent and instrumental nouns

   Büttel, Meißel, Weisel

• “-el” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From -e- +‎ -l.

• IPA^(key): [ɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

-el

2. (personal suffix) Forms the second-person singular present tense of verbs ending in s, sz, z, dz (indicative mood, indefinite conjugation).

   ‎keres (“to seek”) + ‎-el → ‎keresel (“you seek, you are seeking”)

4. (verb-forming suffix) Added to a noun to form a verb.

   ‎ebéd (“lunch”) + ‎-el → ‎ebédel (“to eat lunch”)

6. (noun-forming suffix) Added to a verb to form a noun. No longer productive in this role.

   ‎lep (“to cover”) + ‎-el → ‎lepel (“wrap”)

• (personal suffix) Variants:

  -sz added to verbs not in the categories listed below

  ‎vár (“to wait”) + ‎-sz → ‎vársz (“you wait, you are waiting”)

  -asz added to back-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or -ít

  ‎hall (“to hear”) + ‎-asz → ‎hallasz (“you hear, you are hearing”)

  ‎tanít (“to teach”) + ‎-asz → ‎tanítasz (“you teach, you are teaching”)

  -esz added to front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or -ít

  ‎dönt (“to decide”) + ‎-esz → ‎döntesz (“you decide, you are deciding”)

  ‎segít (“to help”) + ‎-esz → ‎segítesz (“you help, you are helping”)

  -ol added to back-vowel verbs ending in s, sz, z, dz

  ‎olvas (“to read”) + ‎-ol → ‎olvasol (“you read, you are reading”)

  -el added to unrounded front-vowel verbs ending in s, sz, z, dz

  ‎vesz (“to buy”) + ‎-el → ‎veszel (“you buy, you are buying”)

  -öl added to rounded front-vowel verbs ending in s, sz, z, dz

  ‎főz (“to cook”) + ‎-öl → ‎főzöl (“you cook, you are cooking”)

• (verb-forming suffix) Variants:

  -l is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-. Final long vowels may shorten, e.g. ű → ü.

  -ol is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -al is added to other back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -el is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -öl is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -ál is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant

Note: Certain words take another, synonymous suffix, -z/-oz/-az/-ez/-öz/-áz or -zik/-ozik/-azik/-ezik/-özik.

• (noun-forming suffix) Variants:

  -al is added to back-vowel words

  -el is added to front-vowel words

• Category:Hungarian verb forms
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

From Middle Low German -el, from Old Saxon -il, from Proto-Germanic *-ilaz.

-el m

1. Suffix forming nouns originally denoting an agent from verbs.

   Lepel, Snavel, Stickel

From Middle Low German -ling. Result of resegmentation of nouns with -el and -ing suffixes. See the English suffix -ling. Akin to English, Dutch and German -ling.

-el m

1. A suffix that describes a male person (or other creature) in terms of a place of origin or a quality, as defined by the root to which it is added. Now often replaced by a compound with Jung for a male person, and Deern for a female person such as Lehrjung, Lehrdeern (male/female pupil).

• Bückel
• Stickel

From Old English -el, -ol, from Proto-West Germanic *-ul, from Proto-Germanic *-ulaz.

• -le

• IPA^(key): /-əl/

-el

1. Forms adjectives meaning "tending to" or "able to" from verbs.

• English: -le
• Scots: -le

• “-el, suf.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English -el, -ol, from Proto-West Germanic *-il, from Proto-Germanic *-ilaz.

• -ell, -il, -ill, -le, -ul, -yl, -yll, -ylle

• IPA^(key): /-əl/

-el

1. Forms diminutives from verbs or other nouns.
2. Forms agent nouns from verbs or other nouns.

• English: -le, -el
• Scots: -le, -el

• “-el, suf.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old French -el, -ele, from Latin -ālis and -ellus, -ella.

• -ele, -ell, -elle, -eylle, -le, -yll, -ylle

• IPA^(key): /-ˈɛːl(ə)/, /-ɛl(ə)/

-el

1. Forms diminutives from verbs or other nouns.

• English: -el, -le

-el

1. alternative form of -al

-el

1. alternative form of -elen

From Old French -el, from Latin -ālis.

-el

1. makes an adjectival form of a noun; -al

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ьlъ, *-ъlъ.

-el m pers or m animal or m inan (noun-forming suffix)

1. forms nouns

   ‎koza + ‎-el → ‎kozel

   ‎s- + viezti + ‎-el → ‎sviezel

• Czech: -el

• IPA^(key): /el/

From Proto-Germanic *-a-l-.

-el

1. alternative form of -ol

From Proto-Germanic *-ilaz.

• -il

-el

1. (causes i-mutation) agent and instrumental suffix creating nouns from verbs

   ‎crēopan (“to creep”) + ‎-el → ‎crypel (“cripple”)

   ‎bēodan (“to command”) + ‎-el → ‎bydel (“herald, messenger”)

   ‎spittan (“to dig”) + ‎-el → ‎spitel (“shovel”)

   ‎hladan (“to lade”) + ‎-el → ‎hlædel (“ladle”)

   ‎þrēapian (“to reprove, reprehend”) + ‎-el → ‎þrīpel (“instrument of punishment, cross”)

• Middle English: -el
  • English: -le, -el
  • Scots: -le, -el

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛl/

Inherited from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic *-ālis.

-el

1. used to form an adjective

• French: -el
  • → Danish: -el
  • → Dutch: -eel
    • Afrikaans: -eel
    • → Indonesian: -il
  • → German: -ell
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: -ell
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: -ell
  • → Swedish: -ell
  • → Turkish: -sel
  • → Yiddish: ־על (-el)

Inherited from Latin -ellus, from -ulus, from Proto-Italic *-elos, from Proto-Indo-European *-lós.

-el

1. used to form a diminutive

• Angevin: -iau
• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: -iau
• Bourguignon: -eâ
• Champenois: -é, -iau
• Franc-Comtois: -é, -ia
• French: -eau
• Gallo: -ë, -iao
• Lorrain: -é
• Norman: -é, iaô
• Picard: -iau, -ieu
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: -ea
• Walloon: -ea
• → Middle English: -el, -ele, -ell, -elle, -eylle, -le, -yll, -ylle
  • English: -el, -le

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ělъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɛl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Syllabification: -el

-el m

1. forms masculine agent nouns

   ‎śmierdzieć + ‎-el → ‎śmierdziel

Masculine personal:

Masculine animate:

Masculine inanimate:

• -el in Polish dictionaries at PWN

-el

1. Forms the third-person singular present indicative of consonantal oikoclitic verbs

Inherited from Latin -ellus.

• IPA^(key): /el/

-el m (plural -ei, feminine -ea, feminine plural -ele)

1. used to form a masculine diminutive of a word (e.g. ‎băiat (“boy”) + ‎-el → ‎băiețel (“little boy”)

   Synonyms: -uș, -aș, -uț, -șor

• -ea

From Old Swedish -il, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *-ilaz. Cognate with English -le, -el.

-el

2. forms agent nouns and instrument nouns such as tools

   ‎spinna (“to spin”) + ‎-el → ‎spindel (“spider”)

   ‎gjorda (“to gird”) + ‎-el → ‎gördel (“girdle”)

4. forms nouns of diminutive connotation

   ‎stång (“pole”) + ‎-el → ‎stängel (“stalk”)

• -el in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• IPA^(key): /ɛl/

A variation of -il (derives deverbals and denominals), from Proto-Turkic *-il or Proto-Turkic *-gil. Both variants are likely merged with homophonic -il (derives adjectives for onomatopoeia and colors).
See şırıltı (onomatopoeia for flowing water), kızıl (“red”) and yeşil (“green”).
For words from using the same suffix, see güzel (“beautiful”), tombul (“chubby”), tükel (“complete, perfect”), kutsal (“holy, sacred”), çatal (“fork”) and çakıl (“gravel”).
Perhaps influenced by French -al, whence -sel as in göksel or işitsel but not kutsal.^[1]

-el

1. Derives adjectives from nouns and verbs.

   özel (“private, special”) from öz (“self”)

From Ottoman Turkish ـال (-al, -el) or ـل (-l), a combination of Proto-Turkic *-(g)a (verb-forming suffix) and *-il (passive suffix).^[2][3]

-el

2. Derives intransitive verbs from adjectives.

   ‎ince (“thin”) + ‎-l → ‎(int.) incelmek (“to thin”)

   ‎dar (“narrow”) + ‎-al → ‎(int.) daralmak (“to narrow”)

   ‎çok (“many, much”) + ‎-al → ‎(int.) çoğalmak (“to multiply”)

   ‎düz (“straight”) + ‎-el → ‎(int.) düzelmek (“to straighten”)

   ‎kısa (“short”) + ‎-al → ‎(int.) kısalmak (“to shorten”)

   ‎yön (“direction”) + ‎-el → ‎(int.) yönelmek (“to face, to turn towards”)

   ‎diri (“alive, not dead”) + ‎-l → ‎(int.) dirilmek (“to come alive, to come back to life”)

-el

1. Used to indicate a maker of a certain thing.