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Where does “-kijn” come from?
-kijn (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch -kīn, from Proto-Germanic *-ukīn.
Ancestry of “-kijn”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old Dutch
-kīn
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2
Proto-Germanic
*-ukīn
—
Words derived from “-kijn”
minikin
-tje
minnekijn
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