following is a list of diminutives by language. English has a great variety of historical diminutives adopted from other languages but many of these are lexicalized...
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Diminutives in Australian English Hypocorism (diminutives of given names) List of diminutives by language -ie ending "Glossary - D to F". The Standards...
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an Italian language suffix for creating an Italian name using Italian grammar diminutive creation; see List of diminutives by language Etto principle...
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than one correct way to form a diminutive, and many more incorrect ones. The masculine, feminine, and neuter diminutives often end in -us, -a, and -um...
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This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish language given names, their anglicisations and/or English language equivalents. Not all Irish given...
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nyumba "house". It is the diminutive sense that has been furthest extended. An extension common to diminutives in many languages is approximation and resemblance...
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Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is...
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is a language spoken by Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern...
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This list of legendary creatures from mythology, folklore and fairy tales is sorted by their classification or affiliation. Creatures from modern fantasy...
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ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Malta, and in...
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countries. There are over 5,000 identified diminutives in use in Australian English. In other English dialects, diminutives usually imply smallness or have a childish...
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Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group. It is the native language of the Albanian...
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Russian given name (redirect from Russian diminutive name)
Russian diminutives like Vasyka, Marinka, Vit'ka, Alka are considered stylistically lowered. Eastern Slavic naming customs Russian language Onomastics...
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undergone by the Basque language during the Modern Age.[citation needed] For a list of words relating to Aquitanian language, see the Aquitanian language category...
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Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400...
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The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They...
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well as adding the appropriate endings for cases of nouns, adjectives, diminutives, double-diminutives, augmentatives, etc. Depending on the historical...
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Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Colloquial Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent language from...
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James (given name) (category Given names of Hebrew language origin)
Spanish like the Israeli pronunciation of חיים (Haim or Chaim pronounced Kha-yim and meaning life). Diminutives of Chaim are: חיימי Chayimee (from Yiddish...
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native language and the seventh most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world. It is the fifth most spoken Indo-European language. Bengali...
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adjectives from inchoative adjectives, as in (1a–b), as well as to make diminutives of verbs, as in (2a-b):: 112-114 Yapese distinguishes between three numbers...
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several different patterns that form diminutive nouns in Miami–Illinois. Costa describes the formation of diminutives as "extremely complex - much more irregular...
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Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most spoken native language within the...
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This is a list of placeholder names (words that can refer to things, persons, places, numbers and other concepts whose names are temporarily forgotten...
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Taclḥiyt, IPA: [tæʃlħijt]), is a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco. When referring to the language, anthropologists and historians prefer...
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Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is...
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Irish language words used in English in modern Ireland without being assimilated to English forms include: Amhrán na bhFiann: National Anthem of Ireland...
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Parliament of Western Australia, speaking in both Kija and Kriol. Diminutives in Australian English Australian Government, Department of Infrastructure...
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Bread roll (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
European languages have many local and dialectal terms for bread rolls. These include German language diminutives of Brot (bread) in most of western and...
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This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English. There are differing...
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