- 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...
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Slavic places: Bely
Gorod Belgorod Gorodets (with -ets as the
suffix of
diminutiveness)
Gorodishche (with -ishche as the
suffix of augmentation) Ivangorod...
- The name
shamrock comes from
Irish seamróg ([ˈʃamˠɾˠoːɡ]),
which is the
diminutive of the
Irish word
seamair and
simply means "young clover". At most times...
- 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...
- have
quite a few
features in common, such as
small size,
exquisite diminutiveness,
refined palette (mostly
achieved with half-tints, golden, and silver...
- A
leprechaun (Irish: lucharachán/leipreachán/luchorpán) is a
diminutive supernatural being in
Irish folklore,
classed by some as a type of
solitary fairy...
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August 8th, 1896, p. 126: “It
seems probable the
origin is due to the
diminutiveness of the gl****;” “The
expression ‘a pony of beer’ is
often used in South...
- form
Rumpelstiltschen is a
diminutive cognate to
English -kin.
Rumpelstilzchen is
regarded as
containing Stilzchen,
diminutive of
Stelze "stilt". This etymology...
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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...
- The
Latin language has a
robust diminutive-forming system.
There are many
diminutive suffixes:
those in calculus, axilla, fistula, and
areola to start...
