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ವ್ಯುತ್ಪತ್ತಿ ನಿಘಂಟು (Učida & Rajapurohit)
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suf.
(gram.) a suffix for building adjectives and masculine/feminine nouns from nouns, etc., e.g., ಪಾಕಿಸ್ತಾನಿ; from ಪಾಕಿಸ್ತಾನ್ ದೇಶಿ from ದೇಶ
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suf.
(gram.) a suffix for building feminine nouns, e.g., ಹೆಡ್ಡಿ “foolish woman” from ಹೆಡ್ಡ “foolish man”, ಬಾಲಕಿ “girl” from ಬಾಲಕ “boy” [Ka./Sk.] ಇಂ- iṃ- [im] pref. 1 (taste) sweet 2 (esth.) þfig.ß honeyed, sugary, sweet (as the voice, words, etc.) ű
Kannada-English Etymological Dictionary — N. Uchida & B. B. Rajapurohit, ed. J. Takashima, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2018). CC BY-NC 4.0