-bula, -bla-, -ula, -la

-bula, -bla-, -ula, -la Instrumental suffix. Fossilized in Spanish. From Latin -bula 'id.' From Proto-Italic *-þlo- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *-d^hlo- 'id.' Indo-European Romance Asturian -la-, Portuguese -la-, Galician -la-, Catalan -ula-, French -bl(e)-, Italian -ba-, Romanian -bulă* (learned borrowing)* Balto-Slavic Lithuanian -mi, Old Church Slavonic -mĭ Hellenic Mycenaean -pi Armenian Armenian -b Indo-Iranian Sanskrit (inst. pl.) -dhís Present in words like fábula, but less obviously in words like the -bl- in hablar. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.