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English
Etymology
From Middle English -lin, variant of -ling. More at -ling.
Suffix
-lin
- (dialectal) Alternative form of -ling
Anagrams
Middle High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old High German -ilī, -ilīn. The suffix initially arose from -inga, -unga in words ending in -l. Cognate to Dutch -lijn.
Suffix
-līn
- Appended to a noun, making it a diminutive with neuter gender.
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See also
References
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “-lein”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “-lijn”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Romani
Etymology
Compare Old Armenian -ենի (-eni).
Suffix
-lin f
- used to form the names of trees bearing a particular type of fruit
- phabaj (“apple”) + -lin → phabalin (“apple tree”)
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “-lín”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 167ab
- ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “Melléket 4 - Deriváció [Annex 4 — Derivation]”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 501
- ^ Viktor Elšík (2020) “Romani Morphology”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, page 174
- ^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018) ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 142