-ton

From Middle English -ton, -tone, -tune, from Old English -tūn, derived from Old English tūn (“town”). Doublet of town.

-ton

1. Place-name suffix, originally denoting a town or enclosure of buildings.

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2. (mathematics, bridge) A set of specific objects or persons.

• NOT, NTO, Not., ONT, Ont, Ont., TNO, not, not., on't

• IPA^(key): /-toːn/, [-toːn̥]

-tōn (plural -totōn)

1. (appended to nouns) a diminutive suffix; forms nouns denoting smallness, and rarely insignificance.

• The diminutive element -tōn is inserted between the noun stem and the absolutive or possessive ending if there is one.
• The suffix -tōn takes the plural form -totōn(tin), undergoing reduplication plus the addition of the plural suffix -tin.

piltōntli (“small child”) → pīpiltotōntin (“small children”)

• If the stem does not take an absolutive suffix (i.e. -tli and its assimilated forms, -tl and -li), the resulting diminutive does not either, and -tin is omitted in the plural.

chichitōn (“small dog”) → chichitotōn (“small dogs”)

• The same can also happen with nouns taking the absolutive -in.

quimichin (“mouse”) → quimichtōn (“small mouse”), but citlālin (“star”) → citlāltōntli (“small star”)

• (diminutive affix): -pīl, tepitōn, -tzin

• (augmentative affix): huēyi, -pōl

• Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 247
• James Lockhart (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford University Press, page 240

From Proto-Finnic *-t'oin, from Proto-Uralic *-ktama. Probably related to Northern Sámi -heapme and Moksha -фтома (-ftoma).

-ton (front vowel harmony variant -tön)

1. Indicates lack of something; -less.

   ‎aika (“time”) + ‎-ton → ‎ajaton (“timeless”)

   ‎järki (“sense”) + ‎-ton → ‎järjetön (“senseless”)

   ‎maku (“taste”) + ‎-ton → ‎mauton (“tasteless”)

   ‎ääri (“border”) + ‎-ton → ‎ääretön (“infinite”)

Added to the genitive singular (weak grade) stem.

• -llinen

• -maton