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Japanese
Romanization
-rin
- Rōmaji transcription of りん
Tagalog
Etymology
From -in, but Potet (2013) finds this suffix as abnormal so surmises it to be influenced by Sanskrit -इन् (-in) as in अपचारिन् (apacārin), specifically for salarin.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-rin (verb-forming suffix, adjective-forming suffix, noun-forming suffix, Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈ᜔)
- alternative form of -in
- sala (“fault”) + -rin → salarin (“culprit”)
Derived terms
References
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 149