-ан

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• IPA^(key): /ɑn/
• Rhymes: -ɑn
• Hyphenation: -ан

-ан • (-an)

1. denominal possessive derivational suffix

   ‎ӱп (üp, “hair”) + ‎-ан (-an) → ‎ӱпан (üpan, “-haired”)

• Timothy Riese; Jeremy Bradley; Tatiana Yefremova (2022), “-ан”, in An Essential Grammar for International Learners‎^[1], page 374

• IPA^(key): [an]

-ан • (-an) m

1. Suffix appended to words to create an adjective or a male given name.

• -ен (-en)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈaŋ/
• Syllabification: -‧ан (2 syllables)

-ан • (-an)

1. Marks the attributive form of a noun in the hidden-n declension after a stem ending in the consonant б (b), в (v), г (g), д (d), з (z), к (k), л (l), м (m), п (p), р (r), с (s), т (t), ф (f), х (x) or ц (c).

• -н (-n) — stems ending in a vowel
• -ин (-in) — stems ending in ж, ч, ш or щ

• -ань (-anʹ) — less common
• -ян (-jan)

Inherited from Old Slovak -an, from Proto-Slavic *janinъ, from *-ěninъ. Cognate with Czech and Slovak -an.

• IPA^(key): [ˈan]
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: ан

-ан (-an) m pers (female equivalent -анка)

1. Forms masculine personal nouns, typically demonyms

   ‎Лалить (Lalitʹ, “Lalić”) + ‎-ан (-an) → ‎Лалитян (Lalitjan, “person from Lalić”)

• Medʹeši, H.; Fejsa, M. (1995), “-ан, -ян и -чан”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Сербско-руски словнїк [Serbian-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (А – Њ), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, page 863

• IPA^(key): [ˈan]

-а́н • (-án)

1. (colloquial) added to a noun stem, produces a masculine noun with emotional colouring/coloring

   ‎друг (drug, “friend”) + ‎-а́н (-án) → ‎друга́н (drugán, “friend, mate”) (familiar)

   ‎стари́к (starík, “old man”) + ‎-а́н (-án) → ‎старика́н (starikán, “old man”) (colloquial, familiar)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

-ан (Latin spelling -an)

1. Suffix appended to words to create a masculine noun, usually denoting a (often negative) feature or endearment.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ.

-ан (Latin spelling -an)

1. Suffix appended to words to create an adjective.
   • јад + -ан → јадан (“miserable”)

• -ашан
• -ешан

• IPA^(key): [ˈan]

Ultimately from Latin -ānus.

-а́н • (-án) m inan

1. -ane (chemistry)

Clipping of -ань m (-anʹ). Compare Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Russian -ан anim (-an), Polish -an anim.

-а́н • (-án) m anim (variant -я́н)

1. Unproductive suffix to form an animate masculine noun, usually denoting an emotional feature or endearment

   ‎стари́к (starýk) + ‎-ан (-an) → ‎старига́н (staryhán, “old man”, familiar, low colloquial)

   ‎вовцю́га (vovcjúha) + ‎-ан (-an) → ‎вовцюга́н (vovcjuhán, “wolf”, derogatory, augmentative)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

-а́н • (-án) m pers (variant -ян)

1. genitive/accusative plural of -а́нин (-ányn)

• Лев Миха́йлович Полю́га [Lev Mykhailovych Poliuha] (2001), Словник українських морфем: близько 40 000 слів [Dictionary of Ukrainian morphemes: close to 40,000 words] (in Ukrainian), Львів [Lviv]: Світ [Svit], →ISBN, page 378
• “ан”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horox – Slovozmina, Horokh – Inflection]‎^[2]