-енка

-енка (Latin spelling -enka)

1. Suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, denoting a part, profession, feature, membership, origin, social status, complexion, proper name, abstract noun or animal's name.

• -ка
• -инка
• -овка

Rebracketing of -ка (-ka).

-енка • (-enka) f pers (masculine -енець, variant -анка or -ійка or -инка or -ка)

1. female equivalent of -енець (-enecʹ)
2. Suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, denoting a part, profession, feature, membership, origin, social status, complexion, proper name, abstract noun or animal's name.

   ‎француз (francuz) + ‎-енка (-enka) → ‎француженка (francuženka)

From -ення (-ennja) +‎ -ка (-ka).

-е́нка • (-énka) f inan (variant -янка or -анка)

1. (forming feminine nouns) -ness, -ing

   борозенка ― borozenka ― furrow

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

-енка • (-enka) m (variant -єнка)

1. inflection of -енко (-enko):
   1. genitive/accusative singular
   2. nominative/vocative plural

• Лев Миха́йлович Полю́га [Lev Myxájlovyč Poljúha] (2001), Словник українських морфем [Slovnyk ukrajinsʹkyx morfem, Dictionary of Ukrainian morphemes] (in Ukrainian), Львів [Lʹviv]: Світ [Svit], →ISBN