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a diminutive suffix of nouns:
lambkin.
Origin:
ME < MD, MLG
-ken;
c. G
-chen
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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-kin or -kins
suff. Little one:
devilkin.
[Middle English, probably from Middle Dutch
-kijn, -kin
.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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-kin
dim. suffix, first attested c.1250 in proper names adopted from Flanders and Holland, probably from M.Du.
-kin,
properly a double-dim., from
-k
+
-in.
Equivalent to Ger.
-chen.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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