- Look up
hypocorism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
hypocorism (/haɪˈpɒkərɪzəm/ hy-POK-ər-iz-əm or /ˌhaɪpəˈkɒrɪzəm/ HY-pə-KORR-iz-əm; from Ancient...
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found in the Aeneid. It was a
common ancient practice of
using the
hypocoristicon or
shortened form of the name that
included only the
divine element...
- that the name pmy ("Pummay") in the last line is a
shortened form (
hypocoristicon) of the name of Shubna's king,
containing only the
divine name, a method...
- mentioned,
whose name in
Hebrew is אַסְפָּֽתָא. The name is
probably a
hypocoristicon representing *Aspata, from the
Median word *aspa ("horse") suffixed...
- Tahmašši, or Takhmašši, and also
known by his
hypocoristicon or pet name: Tahmaya, or
Atahmaya was an
Egyptian official to
pharaoh in the 1350 BC Amarna...
- יְשֻׁרוּן Yəšurūn) is a
poetic name for
Israel used in the
Hebrew Bible. A
hypocoristicon of the name
Israel (יִשְׂרָאֵל Yiśrāʾēl). The
vocalization of this...
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Canaanite dialects".
Since there was only one king of Tyre with this
hypocoristicon in the 9th
century BCE,
Cross restores the name to pmy(y)tn or pʿmytn...
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Persian name
Khshayarsha as do "Ahasuerus" ("(Arta)Xerxes") and the
hypocoristicon "Arshu" for
Artaxerxes II
found on a
contemporary inscription (LBAT...
- Ginti–(Gintikirmil), of the 14th
century BC
Amarna letters. Tagi's name is a
Hurrian hypocoristicon for the word beautiful. Tagi was the father-in-law of Milkilu, mayor...
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mistaken later reading of 10th-century Sysw. The
theory that
Ramesses II (
hypocoristicon Sysa),
rather than
Shoshenq I,
should be
identified with the biblical...
