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-kin

a diminutive suffix of nouns: lambkin.

Origin:
ME < MD, MLG -ken; c. G -chen
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-kin or -kins  
suff.  Little one: devilkin.

[Middle English, probably from Middle Dutch -kijn, -kin.]
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