Thread: "Undiminutive"?

слонослюслюслюшечека < слонюснюсенька < слонюсек < ? < слонишко < слоник < слон < слонище < слоняра < ?

А где же слонишечко и слонярище?

I guess these suffixes can be treated as kinda multipliers:

ечк/ичк = 0.5
еньк = 0.5+
иш(к) = 0.6
ек/ик = 0.7
яра = 1.5
ище = 1.9

So слоничка > слонишечка
Because
слоничка = слон * 0.5, and
слонишечка = слон * 0.6 * 0.5 = слон * 0.3

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.