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From theSlavic suffix represented byRussian-ник(-nik). This suffix experienced a surge in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Soviet launch of the firstSputnik satellite. English usage is heavily influenced byYiddish usage of־ניק(-nik) and similar borrowed words (nogoodnik,nudnik,kibbutznik).

-nik

1. Creates anickname for a person whoexemplifies,endorses, or is associated with the thing or quality specified (by the base form), often a particularideology or preference.

• Kabakchi, V. V. with Doyle, Charles Clay (1990 Autumn) “Of Sputniks, Beatniks, and Nogoodniks”, inAmerican Speech‎^[1], volume65, number 3,→JSTOR, pages275-278

• -kin,-kin-,Kin,ink,k'in,kin

• -enik

From-n(“that”) +‎-ik(partitive suffix).

-nik

1. Negative polarity item used to form relative clauses,that

   Ez dut esan etorriko direnik. ―I didn't saythat they'll come.

The form taken by this clitic depends on the ending of the verbal form to which it is attached, see the usage notes at-n.

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)CompareIngrian-nikka,Latvian-nieks andRussian-ник(-nik).

-nik (genitive-niku,partitive-nikku)

1. Forms occupational agent nouns. (non-productive)

   ‎kiri(“text”) + ‎-nik → ‎kirjanik(“writer”)

   ‎aed(“garden”) + ‎-nik → ‎aednik(“gardener”)

   ‎kunst(“art”) + ‎-nik → ‎kunstnik(“artist”)

FromProto-Slavic*-nikъ.

• IPA^(key): /nʲik/

-nik m

1. Forms masculine nouns referring to a performer of some action, sometimes a device;-er

   ‎rězaś(“to cut”) + ‎-nik → ‎rěznik(“butcher”)

Animate nouns:

Inanimate nouns:

• -nica f

-nik (plural-nikan,obligatorily possessed)

1. arm

• gichinik(“right hand”)
• ginik(“your arm”)
• ingodonik(“one arm; one armlength”)
• jiiskinikebizon(“bracelet; garter”)
• midaasonik(“ten arms; ten armlengths”)
• minikeyaab(“armband; bracelet”)
• ninik(“my arm”)
• onik(“his arm”)

• -nik-
• -nike-

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionaryhttps://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/ninik-nid

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*-nikъ.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE)/niːk/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE)/nik/

-nik m

1. forms masculine nouns referring to a performer of some action, sometimes a device

• Polish:-nik

Inherited fromOld Polish-nik

• IPA^(key): /ɲik/

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• Rhymes:-ik
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-nik m

1. forms masculine nouns referring to a performer of some action, sometimes a device;-er

   ‎rola + ‎-nik → ‎rolnik

Personal nouns:

Impersonal nouns:

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*-nikъ,*-ьnikъ, itself originally bynominalization of adjectives in *-ьnъ with the suffix *-ikъ (whence-ik). The suffix originates from theProto-Balto-Slavic period; compare with dialectal Lithuanianlauk-inykas(“peasant, farmer”) (fromlaũkas(“field”)) and Old Prussianlauk-inikis(“vassal”).

-nik (Cyrillic spelling-ник)

1. Suffix appended to nominal stems to create a masculine noun, usually denoting a professional, performer, adherent, place, object, tool or a feature.

• -ik
• -ica
• -nica

• Skok, Petar (1971) “-nik”, inEtimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page515

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