• -een

    Origin

    Borrowing from ga -ín, which forms diminutives in Irish.

    Full definition of -een

    Suffix

    1. (Ireland) Used to form the diminutives of nouns in Hiberno-English.man + -een → maneen
    2. (Ireland) Used to anglicise the Irish -ín suffix when anglicise→ poteen----
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