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"ref": "1850 February 2, Benj[amin] H[all] Kennedy, “Pet-names”, in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc., volume I, number 16, London: George Bell, […], published 16 February 1850, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 242, column 1",
"text": "\"Mary\" is informed that \"Polly\" is one of those \"hypocorisms,\" or pet-names, in which our language abounds. Most are mere abbreviations, as Will, Nat, Pat, Bell, &c., taken usually from the beginning, sometimes from the end of the name.",
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"ref": "1865, Frederic W[illiam] Farrar, “The Nature of Words”, in Chapters on Language, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, footnote 3, pages 281–282",
"text": "For the flattering hypocorisms of lovers and parents see Plut. de Leg. Poet. p. 44; [...]",
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"ref": "2000, Karen Jankulak, “The Cult of St Petroc in Cornwall”, in The Medieval Cult of St Petroc (Studies in Celtic History; 19), Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, →ISSN, page 41",
"text": "The addition of diminutive or familiar prefixes and suffixes to the name of a saint to produce a 'pet name' or hypocorism, is common in the Celtic areas and would at times seem to produce extra saints from doublets of existing names.",
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"ref": "2003, Mark Steven Morton, “My Swete Hurle Bawsy: Terms of Endearment”, in The Lover’s Tongue: A Merry Romp through the Language of Love and Sex, Toronto, Ont.: Insomniac Press, page 52",
"text": "Cabbage, however, has enjoyed unlikely success as a hypocorism, a usage that dates back to the mid nineteenth century; this usage arose as a direct translation of chou, which French lovers had been calling each other for a long time: \"Oh, mon petit chou\"—\"Oh, my little cabbage.\"",
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"ref": "2008, Lukas Bleichenbacher, “Replacement Strategies”, in Multilingualism in the Movies: Hollywood Characters and Their Language Choices (Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten [Swiss Studies in English]), Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg: Francke Verlag, →ISSN, section 5.3 (Evocation), page 66",
"text": "Another example are hypocorisms (nicknames based on personal names) derived via language-specific word formation processes. In Amadeus, the German hypocorisms for Wolfgang and Constanze, Wolfie and Stanzi, can pass as German as well as American English – however, the latter hearing is encouraged by Constanze's pronunciation of the first vowel in Wolfie as [ˈvʊlfɪ] rather than German [ˈvɒlfɪ].",
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"ref": "2016, Jessie Sams, “Word Formation in HIMYM [How I Met Your Mother]”, in Kristy Beers Fägersten, editor, Watching TV with a Linguist, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, page 172",
"text": "Barney's own name is a hypocorism of Barnabas or Barnaby; Ted is a clipping of Theodore, which commonly becomes the hypocorism Teddy; among Barney's many sexual encounters were Wendy, Abby, and Jenny, each a hypocorism of original names Gwendolyn, Abigail, and Jennifer.",
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"ref": "2010, George Yule, “Word Formation”, in The Study of Language, 4th edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, page 60",
"text": "An acronym that never seems to have had capital letters comes from \"young urban professional\", plus the -ie suffix, as in hypocorism, to produce the word yuppie (first recorded in 1984).",
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"ref": "2015, William B. McGregor, “Structure of Words: Morphology”, in Linguistics: An Introduction, 2nd edition, London, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, Part I (Language: System and Structure), page 86",
"text": "A variant on clipping that is common in Australian English is hypocorism. This involves first clipping a word down to a closed monosyllable. Next the suffix -y ~ -ie (/i/) is attached to the clipped form. Some examples are Aussie 'Australian', brekky 'breakfast', bickie 'biscuit', barbie 'barbeque', and telly 'television'.",
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"ref": "1988, John Holm, “Lexicosemantics”, in Pidgins and Creoles (Cambridge Language Surveys), volumes I (Theory and Structure), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, published 1995, section 3.3.5 (Reduplication), page 88",
"text": "In European languages reduplication is often associated with hypocorism or baby talk (e.g. wee-wee, or French bonbon) but this is not the case in the Atlantic creoles and the Niger-Congo languages.",
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"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Late Latin hypocorisma, a loan from Ancient Greek ὑποκόρισμα (hupokórisma), ὑποκορισμός (hupokorismós, “pet name”), from ὑποκορίζεσθαι (hupokorízesthai), ὑποκορίζομαι (hupokorízomai, “to use a pet name; to act in a childish manner”), from ῠ̔πο- (hupo-, prefix indicating a small degree) + κορίζομαι (korízomai, “to caress”) (from κόρος (kóros, “boy; youth”), κόρη (kórē, “girl; young woman”)).",
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"ref": "1850 February 2, Benj[amin] H[all] Kennedy, “Pet-names”, in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc., volume I, number 16, London: George Bell, […], published 16 February 1850, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 242, column 1",
"text": "\"Mary\" is informed that \"Polly\" is one of those \"hypocorisms,\" or pet-names, in which our language abounds. Most are mere abbreviations, as Will, Nat, Pat, Bell, &c., taken usually from the beginning, sometimes from the end of the name.",
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"ref": "1865, Frederic W[illiam] Farrar, “The Nature of Words”, in Chapters on Language, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, footnote 3, pages 281–282",
"text": "For the flattering hypocorisms of lovers and parents see Plut. de Leg. Poet. p. 44; [...]",
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"ref": "2000, Karen Jankulak, “The Cult of St Petroc in Cornwall”, in The Medieval Cult of St Petroc (Studies in Celtic History; 19), Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, →ISSN, page 41",
"text": "The addition of diminutive or familiar prefixes and suffixes to the name of a saint to produce a 'pet name' or hypocorism, is common in the Celtic areas and would at times seem to produce extra saints from doublets of existing names.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2003, Mark Steven Morton, “My Swete Hurle Bawsy: Terms of Endearment”, in The Lover’s Tongue: A Merry Romp through the Language of Love and Sex, Toronto, Ont.: Insomniac Press, page 52",
"text": "Cabbage, however, has enjoyed unlikely success as a hypocorism, a usage that dates back to the mid nineteenth century; this usage arose as a direct translation of chou, which French lovers had been calling each other for a long time: \"Oh, mon petit chou\"—\"Oh, my little cabbage.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2008, Lukas Bleichenbacher, “Replacement Strategies”, in Multilingualism in the Movies: Hollywood Characters and Their Language Choices (Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten [Swiss Studies in English]), Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg: Francke Verlag, →ISSN, section 5.3 (Evocation), page 66",
"text": "Another example are hypocorisms (nicknames based on personal names) derived via language-specific word formation processes. In Amadeus, the German hypocorisms for Wolfgang and Constanze, Wolfie and Stanzi, can pass as German as well as American English – however, the latter hearing is encouraged by Constanze's pronunciation of the first vowel in Wolfie as [ˈvʊlfɪ] rather than German [ˈvɒlfɪ].",
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"ref": "2016, Jessie Sams, “Word Formation in HIMYM [How I Met Your Mother]”, in Kristy Beers Fägersten, editor, Watching TV with a Linguist, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, page 172",
"text": "Barney's own name is a hypocorism of Barnabas or Barnaby; Ted is a clipping of Theodore, which commonly becomes the hypocorism Teddy; among Barney's many sexual encounters were Wendy, Abby, and Jenny, each a hypocorism of original names Gwendolyn, Abigail, and Jennifer.",
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"ref": "2000, Karen Jankulak, “The Cult of St Petroc in Cornwall”, in The Medieval Cult of St Petroc (Studies in Celtic History; 19), Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, →ISSN, page 42",
"text": "St Peter's cult, which dates from the earliest period in Brittany, is represented in the toponymy only in the radical form of his name, without hypocorism or mutation.",
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"ref": "2010, George Yule, “Word Formation”, in The Study of Language, 4th edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, page 60",
"text": "An acronym that never seems to have had capital letters comes from \"young urban professional\", plus the -ie suffix, as in hypocorism, to produce the word yuppie (first recorded in 1984).",
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"ref": "2015, William B. McGregor, “Structure of Words: Morphology”, in Linguistics: An Introduction, 2nd edition, London, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, Part I (Language: System and Structure), page 86",
"text": "A variant on clipping that is common in Australian English is hypocorism. This involves first clipping a word down to a closed monosyllable. Next the suffix -y ~ -ie (/i/) is attached to the clipped form. Some examples are Aussie 'Australian', brekky 'breakfast', bickie 'biscuit', barbie 'barbeque', and telly 'television'.",
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"ref": "1988, John Holm, “Lexicosemantics”, in Pidgins and Creoles (Cambridge Language Surveys), volumes I (Theory and Structure), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, published 1995, section 3.3.5 (Reduplication), page 88",
"text": "In European languages reduplication is often associated with hypocorism or baby talk (e.g. wee-wee, or French bonbon) but this is not the case in the Atlantic creoles and the Niger-Congo languages.",
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hipocorístic"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "暱稱"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "nìchēng",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "昵称"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiǎomíng",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "小名"
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"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "hypokorisme"
},
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "koosnaam"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "koosnaampje"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "hüpokorism"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "lempinimi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "hypocoristique"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hipocorístico"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ḳninobiti saxeli",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "კნინობითი სახელი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "saalerso saxeli",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "საალერსო სახელი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "Lallname"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ypokórisma",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "υποκόρισμα"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ypokorismós",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "υποκορισμός"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "hupokorismós",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ὑποκορισμός"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "becenév"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "becézés"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "becézett alak"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ipocoristico"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"word": "hypokorisma"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hipocorístico"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "term of endearment",
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],
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},
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"roman": "laskátelʹnoje ímja",
"sense": "term of endearment",
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],
"word": "уменьши́тельное и́мя"
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "уменьши́тельно-ласка́тельное и́мя"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "term of endearment",
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"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "хипокористик"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "term of endearment",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
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"word": "одмилица"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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"masculine"
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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"sense": "term of endearment",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "term of endearment",
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "term of endearment",
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