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-enn

suffix

LanguageBreton

Meaning
  1. Indicates a singulative of collective nouns.
  2. A suffix added to collective nouns to turn them into singular, countable nouns. For example, it turns a word representing a group into one representing a single item.
Examples

merien (“ants”) + -enn → merienenn (“ant”)

merien (“ants”) + -enn → merienenn (“ant”)

Part of speechsuffix

Usage noteThis suffix is specifically used to identify one individual member out of a collective group.

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 2 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.