Where does “aļteņš” come from?

aļteņš (Latgalian) comes from Latgalian -eņš — Used to form diminutives of hard-stemmed masculine nouns.

Ancestry of “aļteņš”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latgalian-eņšUsed to form diminutives of hard-stemmed masculine nouns
Every word from Latgalian -eņš