Abstract
ON THE ORIGIN OF ADJECTIVES WITH THE SUFFIX -intelis (-ė) Summary Diminutives with the suffix -intelis ( < -int- + -elis ) , in the 16th17th centuries characteristic not only of the West Lithuanian (as in Modern Lithuanian) but also of the East Lithuanian dialects (cf. mažintelis ‘very small’ DK 7 16 ; DP l0x; SD 1 76; SD 3 53,163, 434; SP 1299 18 - 19 , 366 3 ), are derived from archaic *-nt- nouns (cf. Lith. vien-int-elis and vien-unt-elis ‘quite alone’ wien-untas ‘someone’). In Indo-European they denote some kind of attributive (cf. participles and old hydronyms, e. g. Lith. Salantas) and diminutive meaning (cf. Lith. balt-int-elis and OCzech. bel-uci ‘very white’, also Hitt. assuwant- : assu- ‘good’).
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