Thread: "Undiminutive"?

It is absolutely productive and declinable. Gender is the same as of the original word.
Looks like starling works perfect for this word.

There are more such suffixes (more or less colloquial). Носяра for example.

Originally Posted by it-ogo

It is absolutely productive and declinable. Gender is the same as of the original word.

Really? Нос being masculine, isn't носище neuter? Is it always -ище or is it -ища for feminine nouns?

Looks like starling works perfect for this word.

There are more such suffixes (more or less colloquial). Носяра for example.

That's not in starling, but the other is. Now of course I'd like to know all the suffixes and how they relate to each other on a scale of giantness.

Originally Posted by bitpicker

Really? Нос being masculine, isn't носище neuter? Is it always -ище or is it -ища for feminine nouns?

носище is masculine. Well, in colloquial it can be used as neutral for further enlargement and making comic effect.
"-ище" is for masculine and neuter
"-ища" is for feminine.

Originally Posted by bitpicker

That's not in starling, but the other is. Now of course I'd like to know all the suffixes and how they relate to each other on a scale of giantness.

It is difficult. In colloquial extensive improvisations are possible so it is not formalized.
Anyway there is no scale.

As mudrets said, there are -ин- and -га suffixes but normally they are not applicable to "нос". All those suffixes mean basically the same but are applicable to different words and I don't know what are formal rules to select proper suffix for a given word.

BTW Italians also have "undiminutive" suffix -one.

Originally Posted by it-ogo

BTW Italians also have "undiminutive" suffix -one.

Romance languages have some form or derivative of 'issimus' or something like that. An example in Italian: Generalissimo or Generalissimus. Spanish has it's own form, 'isimo' for suffix. French: issime.

Originally Posted by Seraph

Romance languages have some form or derivative of 'issimus' or something like that. An example in Italian: Generalissimo or Generalissimus. Spanish has it's own form, 'isimo' for suffix. French: issime.

I meant suffix for nouns.