English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English -lin, variant of -ling. More at -ling.

Suffix edit

-lin

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of -ling

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

  1. Appended to a noun, making it a diminutive with neuter gender.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • German: -lein
  • Vilamovian: -ła
  • Yiddish: ־ל (-l)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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

  1. used to form the names of trees bearing a particular type of fruit[1][2][3][4]
    phabaj (apple) + ‎-lin → ‎phabalin (apple tree)

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. 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
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ 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