-tlan

See also: tlăn and tlần

Classical Nahuatl

-tlan

(added to nouns) A locative suffix denoting adjacency or distance below: Under, around.

Derived as a shortening of -talan (“-less, without”).[1]

-tlan (comparative -tlanabb, superlative leg- -tlanabb)

(adjective-forming suffix) -less, un-, dis- (a privative suffix added to a noun to form an adjective with a meaning of lacking something)
‎hiba (“mistake”) + ‎-tlan → ‎hibátlan (“flawless”)

‎só (“salt”) + ‎-tlan → ‎sótlan (“unsalted”)

(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”)

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	-tlan	-tlanok
accusative	-tlant	-tlanokat
dative	-tlannak	-tlanoknak
instrumental	-tlannal	-tlanokkal
causal-final	-tlanért	-tlanokért
translative	-tlanná	-tlanokká
terminative	-tlanig	-tlanokig
essive-formal	-tlanként	-tlanokként
essive-modal	-tlanul	-tlanokul
inessive	-tlanban	-tlanokban
superessive	-tlanon	-tlanokon
adessive	-tlannál	-tlanoknál
illative	-tlanba	-tlanokba
sublative	-tlanra	-tlanokra
allative	-tlanhoz	-tlanokhoz
elative	-tlanból	-tlanokból
delative	-tlanról	-tlanokról
ablative	-tlantól	-tlanoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	-tlané	-tlanoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	-tlanéi	-tlanokéi

Hungarian adjectives suffixed with -tlan

-tlan 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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