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...

Diminutives in Australian English Hypocorism (diminutives of given names) List of diminutives by language -ie ending "Glossary - D to F". The Standards...

an Italian language suffix for creating an Italian name using Italian grammar diminutive creation; see List of diminutives by language Etto principle...

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...

This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish language given names, their anglicisations and/or English language equivalents. Not all Irish given...

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...

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...

This list of legendary creatures from mythology, folklore and fairy tales is sorted by their classification or affiliation. Creatures from modern fantasy...

nyumba "house". It is the diminutive sense that has been furthest extended. An extension common to diminutives in many languages is approximation and resemblance...

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...

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...

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...

Russian diminutives like Vasyka, Marinka, Vit'ka, Alka are considered stylistically lowered. Eastern Slavic naming customs Russian language Onomastics...

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...

Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400...

The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They...

well as adding the appropriate endings for cases of nouns, adjectives, diminutives, double-diminutives, augmentatives, etc. Depending on the historical...

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...

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...

Spanish like the Israeli pronunciation of חיים (Haim or Chaim pronounced Kha-yim and meaning life). Diminutives of Chaim are: חיימי Chayimee (from Yiddish...

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...

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...

Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most spoken native language within the...

This is a list of placeholder names (words that can refer to things, persons, places, numbers and other concepts whose names are temporarily forgotten...

Taclḥiyt, IPA: [tæʃlħijt]), is a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco. When referring to the language, anthropologists and historians prefer...

end of the first element, e.g., çíplak (naked), çırílçıplak (stark naked), bakán (minister), báşbakan (prime minister) Diminutives constructed by suffix...

Irish language words used in English in modern Ireland without being assimilated to English forms include: Amhrán na bhFiann: National Anthem of Ireland...

European languages have many local and dialectal terms for bread rolls. These include German language diminutives of Brot (bread) in most of western and...

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...

form of the Italian Giulietta, which is a diminutive form of Italian Giulia. It is also an English form of the French Juliette, which is a diminutive form...