| 1. | They are comparable to the diminutive suffixes and of Mandarin.
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| 2. | Note that these are all special diminutive suffixes.
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| 3. | The lake's name derives from that of Lake Winnipeg, with a diminutive suffix.
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| 4. | They most commonly occur in the final syllable of nouns with diminutive suffixes or words with a diminutive connotation.
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| 5. | It does not come to me as a complete surprise that it is a diminutive suffix that would be so used.
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| 6. | The term originated by the addition of the diminutive suffix "-ette " to the word " corset ".
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| 7. | Its name comes from " naranja ", the Spanish word for orange, and the diminutive suffix "-ito ".
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| 8. | The generic name combines a reference to the related form " Diplodocus " with a Crow Indian diminutive suffix " ~ kaate ".
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| 9. | When the diminutive suffix is applied to an adjective, often a near-equivalent idea can be expressed in English by " nice and [ adjective ] ".
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| 10. | I can't think of an equivalent suffix in English but in French I have the feeling the diminutive suffix-ouille could be used in the same way.
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