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Basque
Suffix
-gin
- maker, doer
- hara- (“meat”) + -gin → harakin (“butcher”)
- zur (“wood”) + -gin → zurgin (“carpenter”)
Derived terms
Irish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs, “producer of”). Possibly influenced by Irish gin (“(to give) birth, source”) from Old Irish gainithir, from Proto-Celtic *ganyetor. Both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.
Suffix
-gin f
- -gen
Declension
Derived terms
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ـغن (-gın), ـغین (-gın), ـقین (-ḳın), ـكین (-gin, -kin), ـغون (-gun) or كون (-gun, -gün, -kun, -kün), from Proto-Turkic *-gïn, *-gun.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɟin/, /ɡɯn/, /ɡun/, /ɟyn/, /kɯn/, /cin/, /kun/, /cyn/
Suffix
-gin
- Derives nouns from verbs.
- diz- (“to arrange in a row”) + -gin → dizgin (“rein”)
- sal- (“to let loose, to let go”) + -gın → salgın (“outbreak, epidemic”)
- sür- (“to drive before one, to banish”) + -gün → sürgün (“exile, banishment”)
- yan- (“to burn”) + -gın → yangın (“fire, wildfire”)
- gez- (“to wander, to travel”) + -gin → gezgin (“a traveller, explorer”)
- bil- (“to know, to recognize”) + -gin → bilgin (“a sage, scholar”)
- soy- (“to undress, to rob”) + -gun → soygun (“robbery”)
- Derives adjectives from verbs.
- dur- (“to stop”) + -gun → durgun (“still, calm”)
- ol- (“to be, to become”) + -gun → olgun (“ripe”)
- bit- (“to finish, to end”) + -kin → bitkin (“exhausted”)
- düz- (“to arrange, to set straight”) + -gün → düzgün (“straight, ordered”)
- kes- (“to cut”) + -kin → keskin (“sharp”)
- uy- (“to fit, to suit”) + -gun → uygun (“fitting, suitable)”)
- yay- (“to spread”) + -gın → yaygın (“widespread, common”)
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