-een
noun suffix
velveteen
noun suffix
ETYMOLOGY probably from ratteen
: inferior fabric resembling (a specified fabric) : imitationvelveteen
-een
suffix
- Irish forming diminutive nouns such as colleen〈爱尔兰〉[构成指小的名词], 如colleen.
词源
from the Irish diminutive suffix -ín.
-een
anglicized form of French -in, -ine, ultimately from Latin -inus, -ina.
-een
small one, dear one, imitation:
small one, dear one, imitation:
birdeen, canteen, sateen
1
ORIGIN: Repr. French -ine .
2
ORIGIN: Repr. Irish -ín dim. suffix.
-een
I.\|ēn\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: probably partly from the -een of ratteen and partly alteration of the -ine of armozine, bombazine
: inferior fabric resembling (a specified fabric) : imitation
< sateen >
< velveteen >
II.noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: Irish Gaelic -īn
chiefly Irish : small one : dear one : petty or contemptible one — in diminutive nouns
< birdeen >
< buckeen >
< squireen >
I.
< sateen >
< velveteen >
II.
chiefly Irish
< birdeen >
< buckeen >
< squireen >
-een
Suffix
- Ireland Used to form the diminutives of nouns in Hiberno-English.
- man + -een → maneen (“little man”)
- Ireland Used to anglicise the Irish -ín suffix when anglicising Irish nouns.
- poitín → poteen
Etymology
Borrowing from Irish -ín, which forms diminutives in Irish.