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Personal name as base
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Within the field of nominal suffixation, only a few suffixes may be attached to personal names. The suffixes -iaan and -man denote followers of a certain person, although the latter is mainly used in negative contexts. An associative meaning is found in -en-dy and its variant -en-har, in that they refer to the people that are in a close relationship with a person. These suffixes are also special since they can be interpreted as the result of univerbation.

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More information on the suffixes that take personal names as base can be found in the following topics:

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