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Definition of Diminutival

Diminutival
Diminutival Di*min`u*ti"val, a. Indicating diminution; diminutive. ``Diminutival forms' [of words]. --Earle. -- n. A diminutive. --Earle.

Meaning of Diminutival from wikipedia

- Look up diminutive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root...
- The following is a list of diminutives by language. English has a great variety of historical diminutives adopted from other languages but many of these...
- Diminutive forms of words are commonly used in everyday Australian English. While many dialects of English make use of diminutives and hypocorisms, Australian...
- 27, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2015. "Missing "13-year-old" apparently diminutive 34-year-old woman". Radio Prague. May 23, 2007. Barbora Skrlova - who...
- actively used. Po****rity of pagan names resulted in formation of various diminutive forms: Bychko from Byk, Zhdanko from Zhdan, Puzeika from Puzo and so on...
- German. The suffix -kin was used in Middle Dutch and Middle German as a diminutive. Examples occur in both Chaucer and Langland though the form is unknown...
- A leprechaun (Irish: lucharachán/leipreachán/luchorpán) is a diminutive supernatural being in Irish folklore, classed by some as a type of solitary fairy...
- The Latin language has a robust diminutive-forming system. There are many diminutive suffixes: those in calculus, axilla, fistula, and areola to start...
- In Russian, Masha (Маша) is a diminutive of Maria. Also as in Ukrainian is a diminutive of Mariia or Mariya. It has been used as a nickname or as a pet...
- meaning "cycle or circle of little animals". Zōdion (ζῴδιον) is the diminutive of zōon (ζῷον, "animal"). The name reflects the prominence of animals...