Pejorative suffix

The Pejorativsuffix is a suffix (suffix), which is obtained by attaching to the stem of a word, a negative ( pejorative ) gives importance ( Pejoration ). In some languages, it overlaps with the diminutive.

Examples

German

The German has no exclusively pejorative suffixes. -ling, this function in individuals characterizations and the derivation of an originally positive connotation term take (see hunk, favorite ), but not as a collective noun ( cf. Bluebird, bloater ). Tend neutral are derivatives of abstractions (see courtier, Displacement ). Significantly more frequently takes place in the German Pejoration through composition.

• - aster ( from Latin ), eg caviler or Päderaster
• -o, eg Normalo, Brute (only colloquial)
• -ei, in deverbal abstract nouns eg legwork Rederei
• -ling, eg Schönling
• - ler, such as dissenters, war profiteers

Basque

• - txo eg jauntxo (of jaun " man " )

English

• - tard, colloquially in words like paultard, libtard or conspiratard. As root is usually given " retard".
• Aster, such as poetaster, philosopher aster ( from Latin )

Esperanto

• AC, for example veteraĉo " bad weather " (from Vetero "Weather" )

• - asse eg paperasse " paperwork "
• - âtre eg colors rougeâtre an unsightly, about washed-out red

Hawaiian

• â - ( -WA ), eg lonoā "gossip" (from lono " news " )
• -ea, eg poluea " seasickness " (from polu " wet" )

Italian

• -accio/-accia, such as Boccaccio " Schandmaul " ( to bocca ' mouth ' )
• -astro/-astra, eg giovinastro " good for nothing " ( to Giovine " lad " )

Latin

• - aster, a fraudulent intent indicating, eg patraster " someone who plays only the Father" ( from pater "father" )

Russian

• - ischka ( ишка )
• - aschka ( ашка )

Spanish

In Spanish, there are extensive inventories of pejorative suffixes ( Despectivos ).

• - aco (a ), eg pajarraco "big ugly bird " (by pajaro "Bird " )
• - ejo (a ), eg Lugarejo " backwater " (from lugar ' place " )
• - ote (a ), eg discursote " long ramblings " (from discurso "speech" )