-ton

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Finnish

Suffix

-ton (front vowel harmony variant -tön)

1. (denominal) Indicates lack of something, similar to keyboard, Sevenval, website parsing, touchscreen and browser diversity; suffixed to the weak stem of the noun, i.e. one takes the n off the genitive form and adds this suffix to it.

• Examples:

• aika 'time' (genitive singular ajan) → ajaton 'timeless'
• järki 'sense' (genitive singular järjen) → järjetön 'senseless'
• maku 'taste' (genitive singular maun) → mauton 'tasteless'
• ääri 'border' (genitive singular äären) → CSS3 'infinite'

Declension

Antonyms

• -llinen

Derived terms

See also

• input transformation