"-el" meaning in Turkish

See -el in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

IPA: /ˈ-el/
Etymology: A variation of -il (“derives deverbals and denominals”), from Proto-Turkic *-il or *-gil. Both variants likely merged with homophonic -il (“derives adjectives for onomatopoeia and colors”). See şırıltı (“onomatopoeia for flowing water”), kızıl (“red”) and yeşil (“green”). For words 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. Etymology templates: {{!}} |, {{inflection-table-top|class=floatright very-narrow|palette=red|title=-}} {| class="inflection-table ", {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{inflection-table-bottom}} |}, {{tr-suffix-forms|a=al|e=el}}, {{inh|tr|trk-pro|*-il}} Proto-Turkic *-il, {{r:tr:Lewis:1999|page=102}} Lewis, Geoffrey (1999), The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 102 Head templates: {{head|tr|suffix||-{{{var}}}|head=}} -el, {{tr-suffix}} -el
  1. Derives adjectives from nouns and verbs. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--el-tr-suffix-tr:adjectival
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Suffix

IPA: /ˈ-el/
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish ـال (-al, -el) or ـل (-l), a combination of Proto-Turkic *-(g)a (verb-forming suffix) and *-il (passive suffix). Etymology templates: {{!}} |, {{inflection-table-top|class=floatright very-narrow|palette=red|title=-}} {| class="inflection-table ", {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{!}} |, {{inflection-table-bottom}} |}, {{tr-suffix-forms||a=al|e=el}}, {{der|tr|ota|ـال|tr=-al, -el}} Ottoman Turkish ـال (-al, -el), {{der|tr|trk-pro|*-a|*-(g)a|pos=verb-forming suffix}} Proto-Turkic *-(g)a (verb-forming suffix) Head templates: {{head|tr|suffix||-{{{var}}}|head=}} -el, {{tr-suffix}} -el
  1. Derives reflexive verbs from nouns and adjectives. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--el-tr-suffix-tr:verbal Categories (other): Pages with 24 entries, Pages with entries, Turkish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 24 entries: 2 3 4 9 2 4 3 2 7 3 3 4 4 3 4 9 4 0 0 0 2 2 2 8 2 4 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 4 4 6 1 6 3 1 8 4 3 4 4 3 4 10 4 0 0 0 1 1 1 10 1 4 10 Disambiguation of Turkish entries with incorrect language header: 33 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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