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In Galician diminutive sufixes -inho/a indicate affection.
Your house may be huge in size but if you say "My little house" it means "My dear house". Your father may be very tall but he'll still be your painho if you love him.
The suffix can be applied to kinship terms & other relationships, as well as to inanimate objects, etc.
"Minha nai, minha naizinha
como minha nai, nengumha
que me aqueceu a carinha
coa calorinha da sua"