The building blocks of English
Affixes
-le3
Forming verbs.
Old English ‑lian, of Germanic origin.
Many examples express a repeated action or movement: babble, crackle, hobble, mingle, paddle, prattle, sparkle, tangle, tinkle, wriggle. Some are based on echoic roots: cackle, gabble, giggle, mumble. The suffix is not used to make new words.
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