- 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...
- the god
personifying this
sacred force was thus
called Jarovit, or
hypocoristically Jarilo. The only
historic source that
mentions this
deity is a 12th-century...
-
meanings (a low
class woman, a weakling, a mop, or a name)
derived from a
hypocoristic form of the
female name Maud.
Scottish legend makes reference to the...
- 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...
- Y/Iolanda = Yoyô, Ioiô,
Landa Other hypocoristics are ****ociated with
common two name combinations: A
hypocoristics can
receive the
suffix -inho/-inha...
-
extremely implausible; in one
genealogy he
appears as Ceola, an
apparent hypocoristic [...]
implying a
dithematic Ceol-name;
while the
Genealogical Regnal...
- not in use.
Equivalent to the
German Gunther. Ruy or Rui is an
archaic hypocoristic form of Rodrigo. In
Norse custom,
patronyms and
matronyms were formed...
-
Pryszczyk Preserved as a
surname in
Sorbian Priš, and
Polish Przybysz, a
hypocoristic of the
Slavic personal name Pribyslavъ Also
attested in the Moravian...
- very
colloquial plural form of Mark, Märker [ˈmɛʁkɐ] was used
either as
hypocoristic form or to
refer to a
small number of D-Mark
coins or bills, e.g. Gib...
