名詞後綴-kin 來源有好幾種一說來源於中古荷蘭語-kin，跟德語裡的後綴-chen 等價

英文詞源：
diminutive suffix, first attested late 12c. in proper names adopted from Flanders and Holland, probably from Middle Dutch -kin, properly a double-diminutive, from -k + -in. Equivalent to German -chen. Also borrowed in Old French as -quin, where it usually has a bad sense.

This suffix, which is almost barren in French, has been more largely developed in the Picard patois, which uses it for new forms, such as verquin, a shabby little glass (verre); painequin, a bad little loaf (pain);

Pierrequin poor little Pierre, &c. ["An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language," transl. G.W. Kitchin, Oxford, 1878]

Used in later Middle English with common nouns. In some words it is directly from Dutch or Flemish.

同類後綴有：-cle，-cule，-el，-ella，-en，-et，-ie，-isk，-le，-ling，-let，-ock，-y，-etta，-ette，-etto，-ule 小，細小

同綴詞：

1.lambkin [lamb 羔羊 + -kin 後綴表示小 → ]
n.羔羊

2.cannikin [cann =can 金屬罐 + -i- 連接詞 + -kin 後綴表示小 → ]
n.小盃，小罐

3.pannikin [pann （這個發音像漢語裡的“磐”，是不是詞根，沒有查到，與其相關的有一個單詞pannier n. n. 籮； 筐； 背簍； 撐裙,從這意思中可以判斷，pann應儅是關於一個盛東西的容器） + -i- 連接詞 + -kin 後綴表示小→ ]
n.小磐，小鍋

4.minikin [mini 微小 + -kin 後綴表示小 → ]
n.小動物，微小的東西

5.manikin [man 人 + -i- 連接詞 + -kin 後綴表示小 → a little man ]
n.侏儒；人躰解剖模型

6.napkin [nap =拉丁文napa =mapa 佈 + -kin 後綴表示小 → 小片的佈→]
n.餐佈

7.pumpkin [pump = 拉丁文 peponem = large melon + + -kin 後綴表示小 →]
n.南瓜