Tamil compound element

-மனை

-maṉai
collective / place

Register

native

Productivity

mid

attaches to a sizeable but bounded set

Attaches to

N

Status

Establisheddraft

madras_tl

Words built with -மனை

மருத்துவமனை
maruttuvamaṉai
place of medicine
மருத்துவம்+-மனை

Does the same job elsewhere

Functional equivalents, placed in their lanes. Same register is noted; most differ.

English

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    French

    • -erie
      register-matched functional equivalent

    Hindi

    Telugu

    • -శాల
      functional equivalent; register differs (N vs S)

    Tamil

    this affix: -மனை