Sanan -kainen merkitys | Babel Free

Määritelmät

1. Creates nouns referring to things or beings that have a quality defined by the headword.
   morpheme
2. Front vowel variant of -kainen
   alt-of, front-vowel, morpheme
3. Used to create terms of endearment, or sometimes belittling terms.
   morpheme

Esimerkit

“ainoa (“only”) + -kainen → ainokainen (“singleton; only child”)”

“karhu (“bear”) + -kainen → karhukainen (“water bear”)”

“kaunis (“beautiful”) + -kainen → kaunokainen (“beauty”)”

“lapsi (“child”) + -kainen → lapsukainen (“little one”)”

“nuori (“young”) + -kainen → nuorukainen (“youngster”)”

“outo (“strange”) + -kainen → outokainen (“strangelet”)”

“pieni (“little”) + -kainen → pienokainen (“little one”)”

“keiju (“fairy”) + -kainen → keijukainen (“fairy”)”

“lyhyt (“short”) + -kainen → lyhykäinen (“short, shortish”)”

“neito (“maiden”) + -kainen → neitokainen (“damsel”)”

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