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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by leereeves on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:40PM (#43002912)
I haven't seen -kin is used as a diminutive suffix in modern American English, in the way -ito,-ita is in Spanish (niñito, perrito). Maybe in England?
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