Hypocorism
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A hypocorism (/haɪˈpɒkərɪzəm/ Script error: No such module "Respell". or /ˌhaɪpəˈkɒrɪzəm/ Script error: No such module "Respell".; from Ancient Greek Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang".; sometimes also hypocoristic), or pet name, is a name used to show affection for a person.[1][2] It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as Izzy for Isabel or Bob for Robert, or it may be unrelated.
Origins and usage
Etymologically, the term hypocorism is from Ancient Greek Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".), from Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".), meaning 'to call by endearing names'. The prefix Script error: No such module "Lang". refers in this case to creating a diminutive, something that is smaller in a tender or affectionate sense; the root Script error: No such module "Lang". originates in the Greek for 'to caress' or 'to treat with tokens of affection', and is related to the words Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".) 'boy, youth' and Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".) 'girl, young woman'.
In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ‑y or ‑ie (phonologically /-i/).[3] Sometimes the suffix -o is included as well as other forms[4][5][6] or templates.[7]
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."pet name". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McGregor, William B. (2015). Linguistics: An Introduction (2. ed.). London: Bloomsbury. p. 86. ISBN 9780567483393.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bromhead, Helen (9 March 2021). "Gatho, lippy, rego — why Australians love hypocoristics". Lingoblog.dk. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Simpson, Jane (2008). "Hypocoristics in Australian English". The Pacific and Australasia. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 398–414. doi:10.1515/9783110208412.2.398. ISBN 978-3-11-019637-5.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lipski, John M. (1995). "Spanish hypocoristics: towards a unified prosodic analysis" (PDF). Hispanic Linguistics. Vol. 6. pp. 387–434. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-07-07. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Davis, Stuart; Zawaydeh, Bushra Adnan (2001). "Arabic Hypocoristics and the Status of the Consonantal Root". Linguistic Inquiry. 32 (3). The MIT Press: 512–520. doi:10.1162/002438901750372540. ISSN 0024-3892. JSTOR 4179159. S2CID 18921857. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
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