Diminutive suffix

Diminutive suffixes are suffixes used to create diminutive forms of names.

Examples of diminutive suffixes:

Finnish

• -kka
• -kki
• -kko/-kkö
• -kku
• -nen
• -ska
• -sko

French

• -ette

German

including High German, Low German, Frisian

• -chen
• -ilo
• -ing
• -k
• -ka
• -ke
• -ken
• -ko

Greenlandic

• -aka
• -laaq
• -luk
• -mineq
• -nguujuk
• -nnguaq
• -paluk
• -pik
• -raq
• -rsuk
• -suk

Latin

• -ella (female)
• -ellus (male)
• -illa (female)
• -illus (male)
• -inus (male)
• -ina (female)

Old Norse

• -sa (female)
• -se (male, Old Swedish)
• -si (male)