-tlen

See also: tlen

Hungarian

Derived as a shortening of -telen (“-less, without”).[1] See the Usage notes section below.

-tlen (comparative -tlenebb, superlative leg- -tlenebb)

(adjective-forming suffix) -less, un-, dis- (a privative suffix added to a noun or an adjective to form adjectives with a meaning of lacking something)
‎felhő (“cloud”) + ‎-tlen → ‎felhőtlen (“cloudless”)

‎hű (“faithful”) + ‎-tlen → ‎hűtlen (“unfaithful”)

(adjective-forming suffix) Variants:
-talan is added to back-vowel nouns (occasionally adjectives)

-telen is added to front-vowel nouns (occasionally adjectives)

-tlan is added to back-vowel nouns (occasionally adjectives) ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-.

-tlen is added to front-vowel nouns (occasionally adjectives) ending in a vowel. Final -e changes to -é-.

-atlan is added to back-vowel verbs and nouns (occasionally adjectives)

-etlen is added to front-vowel verbs and nouns (occasionally adjectives)
Using two different suffix variants with the same stem may result in different meanings:
gond (“care”) → gondtalan (“carefree”)

gond (“care”) → gondatlan (“careless”)

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Hungarian adjectives suffixed with -tlen

-tlen in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

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