-kainen

== Finnish == === Etymology === -kka +‎ -inen. -kkainen is found in dialects. === Suffix === -kainen (front vowel harmony variant -käinen, linguistic notation -kAinen) Creates nouns referring to things or beings that have a quality defined by the headword. ‎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”) Used to create terms of endearment, or sometimes belittling terms. ‎keiju (“fairy”) + ‎-kainen → ‎keijukainen (“fairy”) ‎lyhyt (“short”) + ‎-kainen → ‎lyhykäinen (“short, shortish”) ‎neito (“maiden”) + ‎-kainen → ‎neitokainen (“damsel”) ==== Usage notes ==== The suffix often triggers labialization in the final vowel of the stem, much in the same way as -kka does sometimes. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Anagrams === -niekan, ankein, kanien