-lin
See also: Appendix:Variations of "lin"
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English -lin, variant of -ling. More at -ling.
Suffix edit
-lin
Anagrams edit
Middle High German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old High German -ilī, -ilīn.[1] The suffix initially arose from -inga, -unga in words ending in -l.[2] Cognate to Dutch -lijn.
Suffix edit
-līn
- Appended to a noun, making it a diminutive with neuter gender.
Derived terms edit
- brüederlīn
- esellīn
- heselīn
- knebelīn
- küechelīn
- lietlīn, liedlīn
- magetlīn, meidelīn
- müeterlīn, muoterlīn
- muschellīn
- ōrelīn, œrelīn
- singerlīn
- stërnlīn
- swësterlīn
- vaterlīn, veterlīn
- vrouwelīn, vröuwelīn, vröulīn
- vogellīn, vogelīn
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ 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 edit
Etymology edit
Compare Old Armenian -ենի (-eni).[1]
Suffix edit
-lin f
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ↑ 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] (in Hungarian; 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, →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