- HY-pə-KORR-iz-əm; from
Ancient Gr**** ὑποκόρισμα hypokórisma;
sometimes also
hypocoristic), or pet name, is a name used to show
affection for a person. It may...
- use,
hypocoristic names in
Spanish are only used to
address a
person in a very
familiar environment – the only
exception being when the
hypocoristic is...
- Mia is a
feminine given name. Long in use as a
diminutive of
names such as Maria, Mia is
recorded as a
given name in the
United States in the 1960s, and...
-
extremely implausible; in one
genealogy he
appears as Ceola, an
apparent hypocoristic [...]
implying a
dithematic Ceol-name;
while the
Genealogical Regnal...
- are also a
number of
unrelated names also
spelled Mani, some of them
hypocoristic, such as
German Mani for Manfred. Mani (prophet) (c. 216 – 276), Iranian...
-
occasionally masculine. It is
derived from a
diminutive of Siga, a
mediaeval hypocoristic of
Germanic names having the
first element Sig- (meaning "victory")....
-
Vladislav and can also be used as a surname. Alternately, it may be a
hypocoristic form of the
Slavic name
Vladimir (although the
normative nickname is...
- ('baptized'), Radovan, Dragan, Željan, Dejan, Nayden, Mirjana.
Diminutive and
hypocoristic (endearing)
names deriving from the above-mentioned
dithematic names...
- Word/name
Basque Other names Derived Basque Eneko, ene- "mine", -ko (
hypocoristic) "my
little (love/dear)"
Related names Eneko, Iñaki, Ignatius, Yñigo...
-
Scandinavian in the
spelling Sofie and Sophy. A
Dutch hypocoristic is Sofieke.
Russian has the
hypocoristic Соня (Sonya),
which in the late 19th
century was...
