-tje

Значение (Английский)

Appended to a noun (or occasionally another part of speech), making it diminutive.

Синонимы

-pje

-je

-ling

-etje

-ken

-kijn

-ie

-che

-ke

Произносится как (IPA)

/tjə/

Этимология (Английский)

From earlier -tjen, from Middle Dutch -kijn, from Old Dutch -kīn, which is the ancestor of the suffixes -ke, -ken, -tje (and its subvarieties: -je, -etje, -pje, -kje) and Afrikaans -tjie ([ci]). All forms descend from the Proto-West Germanic *-ikīn, *-ukīn, itself a double diminutive produced by combining Proto-West Germanic *-ik, *-uk + *-īn. The change from k to tj is the result of a palatalization of -kijn in North Holland in the 13th or 14th century. Cf. also German -chen, English -kin.