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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by CamouflagedKiwi on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:56PM (#43003111)
I don't think there are many cases where it's used "correctly" but it does get constructed in some cases - e.g. in Harry Potter some of Ron's brothers call him "ickle Ronniekins", which is slightly nonsense but we recognise it immediately as a maximally diminutive form of his name.

I can't think of an augmentative suffix, only prefixes (super- and things like that).

Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by quuxplusone on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:15PM (#43003317)
We (via French, I guess) have a mildly productive suffix "-ette" or "-et", as in cigar-ette, kitchen-ette (floret, bassinet, owlet). It doesn't imply animateness the way "-kin" does; e.g. "hotelette" or "showerette" seem like plausible coinages in a way "hotelkin" and "showerkin" don't (but I sense some cross-pollination from Japanese "-kun" messing with my interpretation of the latter). But "-ette" certainly connotes femininity: "little Ronniekins" says he's a baby, but "little Ronnette" says he's a girl.
Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by Symbiote on Monday February 10, 2025 @07:24PM (#43007224)
-iekins makes sense to me as a nickname for an infant in Britain. Probably only spoken within the family.