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Hypocorism

Index Hypocorism

A hypocorism (Oxford English Dictionary, online edition: "hypocorism". Retrieved 24 June 2008.) is a diminutive form of a name. [1]

122 relations: A. C. Baantjer, Akihiro, Alexander, Alexandra, Alexey, Alyona, Anastasia, Anatoly, Andrey, Anna (given name), Artyom, Assimilation (phonology), Augmentative, Avdotya, Baby talk, Back vowel, Badby, Boris (given name), Brazil, Breton language, Caligae, Caligula, Cantonese, Dative case, Diminutive, Dmitry, Drenthe, Dutch language, Dutch name, Eduard (name), Ekaterina, Elena (given name), English language, Esperanto, Esperanto vocabulary, French language, Galina, Gemination, Gennady, George (given name), German language, Germanic umlaut, Given name, Gleb, Gregory (given name), Grischa, Hiroki, Igor (given name), Irina, Ivan (name), ..., Japan, Japanese honorifics, Japanese language, Juanes, Kana, Katerina, Kirill, Konstantine, Larynx, Latin, Leonid, Lev (given name), Linguistic universal, Ludmila (given name), Margarita (given name), Maria (given name), Michael, Mora (linguistics), Nadezhda (given name), Nastja, Nataliya, Natasha, Nickname, Nikolai, Oksana, Old English, Oleg, Olga (name), Oxford English Dictionary, Pavel, Persian language, Peter (given name), Philippine languages, Polish language, Portuguese language, Puppy, Rök Runestone, Reduplication, Roman (given name), Russian language, Sergius (name), Setsuko, Sicilian language, Slovene language, Sophia (given name), Spanish language, Spike and Suzy, Stanislav (given name), Stepan, Svetlana, Tatiana, Term of endearment, Toponymy, Vadim, Valeria (given name), Valery, Varvara, Vasily, Viacheslav, Victor (name), Viktoriya, Vitali, Vladimir (name), Vladislav, Vyacheslav, West Frisian language, Xenia (name), Yaroslav, Yefim, Yevgeny, Yiddish, Yury. Expand index (72 more) »

A. C. Baantjer

Albert Cornelis "Appie" Baantjer (16 September 1923 – 29 August 2010) was a Dutch author of detective fiction and police officer.

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Akihiro

Akihiro (written: 昭博, 昭宏, 昭大, 明宏, 晃博, 晃大, 聡寛, 彰宏, 彰洋, 晶洋, 暁洋, 顕弘 or 章博) is a masculine Japanese given name.

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Alexander

Alexander is a common male given name, and a less common surname.

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Alexandra

Alexandra (Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρα) is the feminine form of the given name Alexander (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros).

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Alexey

Alexey (Aleksey; Алексе́й,; Алексей) is a Russian and Bulgarian male first name deriving from the Greek Alexios (Αλέξιος), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin Alexius.

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Alyona

Alyona (Алёна) is a Russian female given name derived from the Ancient Greek name Ἑλένη, Helenē (dialectal variant: Ἑλένα, Helena).

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Anastasia

Anastasia (from Greek Ἀναστασία) is a feminine given name and the female equivalent of the male name Anastasius.

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Anatoly

Anatoly (Anatólij, Anatólij) is a common Russian and Ukrainian male given name, derived from the Greek name Ανατολιος Anatolios, meaning "sunrise." Other common Russian transliterations are Anatoliy and Anatoli.

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Andrey

Andrey, Andrej or Andrei (in Cyrillic script: Андрей, Андреј or Андрэй) is the Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovene, Croatian, or Belarusian form of Andrew.

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Anna (given name)

Anna is a Latin form of the Greek name Ἅννα and the Hebrew name Hannah (חַנָּה Ḥannāh, meaning "favor" or "grace" or "beautiful". Anna is in wide use in countries across the world as are its variants Anne, originally a French version of the name, though in use in English speaking countries for hundreds of years, and Ann, which was originally the English spelling. Saint Anne was traditionally the name of the mother of the Virgin Mary, which accounts for its wide use and popularity among Christians. The name has also been used for numerous saints and queens.

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Artyom

Artyom (Артём) is a male given name common in Russia and other Slavic-speaking countries.

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Assimilation (phonology)

In phonology, assimilation is a common phonological process by which one sound becomes more like a nearby sound.

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Augmentative

An augmentative (abbreviated) is a morphological form of a word which expresses greater intensity, often in size but also in other attributes.

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Avdotya

Avdotya (Авдо́тья) or Avdotia is a Russian feminine given name.

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Baby talk

Baby talk is a type of speech associated with an older person speaking to a child.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Badby

Badby is a village and a rural parish of about in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire, England.

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Boris (given name)

Boris, Borys or Barys (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Борис; Барыс) is a male name of Bulgarian origin.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Breton language

Breton (brezhoneg or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Brittany.

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Caligae

Caligae (Latin; singular caliga) are heavy-soled hobnailed military boots known for being issued to Roman legionary soldiers and auxiliaries throughout the Roman Republic and Empire.

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Caligula

Caligula (Latin: Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 31 August 12 – 24 January 41 AD) was Roman emperor from AD 37 to AD 41.

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Cantonese

The Cantonese language is a variety of Chinese spoken in the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding area in southeastern China.

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Dative case

The dative case (abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate, among other uses, the noun to which something is given, as in "Maria Jacobī potum dedit", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink".

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Diminutive

A diminutive is a word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment.

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Dmitry

Dmitry (Дми́трий); Church Slavic form: Dimitry or Dimitri (Дими́трий); ancient Russian forms: D'mitr(iy) or Dmitr (Дьмитр(ии) or Дъмитръ) is a male given name common in Orthodox Christian culture, the Russian version of Greek Demetrios (Δημήτριος Dēmētrios). The meaning of the name is a "devoted to," "dedicated to, or "follower of Demeter" (Δημήτηρ Dēmētēr), "mother-earth", the Greek goddess of agriculture.

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Drenthe

Drenthe is a province of the Netherlands located in the northeastern part of the country.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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Dutch name

Dutch names consist of one or more given names and a surname.

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Eduard (name)

Eduard is a male given name, which is a German and Dutch form of the English name Edward.

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Ekaterina

Ekaterina is a feminine given name, and an alternative transliteration of the Russian Yekaterina.

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Elena (given name)

Elena is a popular female first name in Greek, Italian, Slavic, Baltic, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Esperanto

Esperanto (or; Esperanto) is a constructed international auxiliary language.

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Esperanto vocabulary

Esperanto vocabulary was originally defined in Unua Libro, published by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Galina

Galina, Halina, Halyna (Cyrillic: Галина; from Greek γαλήνη "calmness") is a Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Slovene, Croatian, Polish and Ukrainian female name.

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Gemination

Gemination, or consonant elongation, is the pronouncing in phonetics of a spoken consonant for an audibly longer period of time than that of a short consonant.

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Gennady

Gennady (p), also spelled Gennadi or Gennadiy, is a Russian form of a Hellenic name Gennadios/Gennadius.

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George (given name)

George is a widespread given name, derived from the Greek Γεώργιος (Geōrgios) through the Latin Georgius.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Germanic umlaut

The Germanic umlaut (sometimes called i-umlaut or i-mutation) is a type of linguistic umlaut in which a back vowel changes to the associated front vowel (fronting) or a front vowel becomes closer to (raising) when the following syllable contains,, or.

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Given name

A given name (also known as a first name, forename or Christian name) is a part of a person's personal name.

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Gleb

Gleb (Глеб, Гліб) is a Slavic male given name derived from the Old Norse name Guðleifr, which means "heir of god." It is popular in Russia due to an early martyr, Saint Gleb, who is venerated by Eastern Orthodox churches.

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Gregory (given name)

The masculine first name Gregory derives from the Latin name "Gregorius," which came from the late Greek name "Γρηγόριος" (Grēgorios) meaning "watchful, alert" (derived from Greek "γρηγoρεῖν" "grēgorein" meaning "to watch").

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Grischa

Grischa (alternatively spelled Grisha or Gricha) is a short form for the name Gregory or Grigorij, and sometimes for the name Georgi as well, used in Russia and some other Slavic countries, including Ukraine and Bulgaria.

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Hiroki

is a Japanese given name.

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Igor (given name)

Igor (Igor'; Ihor; Ihar; Игор) is a common given Slavic name derived from the Norse name Ingvar, that was brought to ancient Rus' by the Norse Varangians, in the form Ingvar or Yngvar.

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Irina

Irina (Cyrillic: Ирина) is a feminine given name of Greek origin, commonly borne by followers of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Ivan (name)

Ivan is a Slavic male given name, a variant of the Greek name Iōánnēs (John).

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese honorifics

The Japanese language makes use of honorific suffixes when referring to others in a conversation.

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Japanese language

is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.

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Juanes

Juanes at the Zelt Musik Festival 2015 in Freiburg, Germany Juanes at the Zelt Musik Festival 2015 in Freiburg, Germany Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez (born August 9, 1972), known professionally as Juanes, is a Colombian musician who was a member of the rock band Ekhymosis and is now a solo artist.

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Kana

are syllabic Japanese scripts, a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji (漢字).

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Katerina

Katerina (Greek: Κατερίνα; Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian: Катерина) is a feminine given name.

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Kirill

Kirill is a male given name, deriving from the Greek name Κύριλλος (Kyrillos) which in turn derives from Greek κύριος (kyrios) "lord".

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Konstantine

Konstantine is a masculine given name.

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Larynx

The larynx, commonly called the voice box, is an organ in the top of the neck of tetrapods involved in breathing, producing sound, and protecting the trachea against food aspiration.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leonid

Leonid (Леони́д; Леоні́д; Lieanid) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas.

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Lev (given name)

The name Lev may be of different origins.

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Linguistic universal

A linguistic universal is a pattern that occurs systematically across natural languages, potentially true for all of them.

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Ludmila (given name)

Ludmila or Ludmilla (in origin sounds like Luedmeela) is a female given name of Slavic origin and consists of two elements: lud ("people") and mila ("dear, love").

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Margarita (given name)

Margarita is a female first name, originally derived from Persian "Morvared" meaning Pearl and in Sanskrit मञ्जरी mañjarī meaning 'pearl' or 'cluster of blossoms'.

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Maria (given name)

Maria is a feminine given name.

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Michael

Michael is a masculine given name that comes from מִיכָאֵל / מיכאל (Mīkhāʼēl), derived from the question מי כאל mī kāʼēl, meaning "Who is like God?".

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Mora (linguistics)

A mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a unit in phonology that determines syllable weight, which in some languages determines stress or timing.

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Nadezhda (given name)

Nadezhda or Nadežda (Cyrillic: Надежда) is a Slavic female given name popular in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia and other Slavic countries, as well as other former Soviet states such as Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan etc.

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Nastja

Nastja is a given name used in Russia and Russia-influenced countries.

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Nataliya

Nataliya (Наталія) is the Ukrainian form of the female given name Natalia.

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Natasha

Natasha (Ната́ша) is a name of Slavic origin.

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Nickname

A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place, or thing, for affection or ridicule.

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Nikolai

Nikolay or Nikolai is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name Nicholas, meaning "victory of the people." Kolya is a short name of Nikolay.

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Oksana

Oksana or Oxana (Аксана), sometimes transliterated as Aksana, is a popular female given name of Ukrainian origin.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Oleg

Oleg (Олег), Oleh (Олег), or Aleh (Алег) is a East Slavic given name.

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Olga (name)

Olga is a Slavic female given name, derived from Old Norse name Helga.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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Pavel

Pavel (Bulgarian, Russian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло) is a masculine given name.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی), is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Peter (given name)

Peter is a common masculine given name.

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Philippine languages

In linguistics, the Philippine languages are a proposal by Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991) that all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi—except Sama–Bajaw (languages of the "Sea Gypsies") and a few languages of Palawan—form a subfamily of Austronesian languages.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski or simply polski) is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in Poland and is the native language of the Poles.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Puppy

A puppy is a juvenile dog.

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Rök Runestone

The Rök Runestone (Rökstenen; Ög 136) is one of the most famous runestones, featuring the longest known runic inscription in stone.

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Reduplication

Reduplication in linguistics is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.

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Roman (given name)

Roman is a male first name.

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Russian language

Russian (rússkiy yazýk) is an East Slavic language, which is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Sergius (name)

Sergius is a male given name of Roman origin.

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Setsuko

Setsuko is a female Japanese given name.

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Sicilian language

Sicilian (sicilianu; in Italian: Siciliano; also known as Siculo (siculu) or Calabro-Sicilian) is a Romance language spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands.

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Slovene language

Slovene or Slovenian (slovenski jezik or slovenščina) belongs to the group of South Slavic languages.

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Sophia (given name)

Sophia (also spelled Sofia, variant Sophie), is a feminine given name, from Greek Σοφία, '' Sophía'', "Wisdom".

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Spike and Suzy

Spike and Suzy (British title), Willy and Wanda (American title) or Luke and Lucy (in a 2009 film and video game); Dutch: Suske en Wiske, Bob et Bobette) is a Belgian comics series created by the comics author Willy Vandersteen. It was first published in De Nieuwe Standaard in 1945 and soon became popular. Although not in its earlier form, the strip adapted to the Ligne claire style, pioneered by Hergé. This change took place when the strip became serialised in Hergé's Franco-Belgian comics magazine Tintin from 1948 to 1959. The books revolve around the adventures of the eponymous Spike and Suzy, two children (pre-adolescent or adolescent depending on the album), along with their friends and family. The stories combine elements of comedy, fantasy, and science fiction, such as talking animals, time travel and ghosts. The strip still runs daily in the Belgian newspaper De Standaard, and new books continue to be published; as of May 2017, 339 albums have been published.

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Stanislav (given name)

Stanislav or Stanislaus (Latinized form) is a very old given name of Slavic origin, meaning someone who achieves glory or fame.

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Stepan

Stepan (Степань; Stepań; סטפאן) is an urban-type settlement in Sarny Raion (district) of Rivne Oblast (province) in western Ukraine.

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Svetlana

Svetlana (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic: Светлана; Святла́на; Світла́на) is a common Orthodox Slavic female name, deriving from the East and South Slavic root свет svet, which translates into English as "northern star","light", "shining", "luminescent", "pure", "blessed", or "holy", depending upon context similar if not the same as the word Shwet in Sanskrit.

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Tatiana

Tatiana (or Tatianna, also romanized as Tatyana, Tatjana, Tatijana, etc.) is a female name of Latin origin.

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Term of endearment

A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address or describe a person, animal or inanimate object for which the speaker feels love or affection.

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Toponymy

Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use, and typology.

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Vadim

Vadim is a Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Slovene, Bulgarian and Macedonian masculine given name derived either from the Persian badian (anise or aniseed), or from the ancient Russian word volod (волод), meaning to rule or vaditi (вадити), meaning to blame.

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Valeria (given name)

Valeria or Valéria is a female given name dating back to the Latin verb valere, meaning "to be strong".

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Valery

The French name Valery is a given name or surname of Germanic origin Walaric (see Walric of Leuconay), that has often been confused in modern times with the Latin name Valerius—that explains the variant spelling Valéry.

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Varvara

Varvara (Cyrillic: Варвара; Βαρβάρα, Varvára), a variant of "Barbara", may refer to.

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Vasily

Vasili or Vasily (Васи́лий) is a Slavic male given name of Greek origin and corresponds to Basil.

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Viacheslav

Viacheslav is a given name.

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Victor (name)

Victor is Latin in origin meaning "winner" or "conqueror".

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Viktoriya

Viktoriya is a given name.

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Vitali

Vitali, Vitaly, Vitaliy may refer to.

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Vladimir (name)

Vladimir (Влади́мир, Володимѣръ, Владимир) is a male Slavic given name of Church Slavonic and Old Slavic origin, now widespread throughout all Slavic nations.

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Vladislav

Vladislav (Belarusian: Уладзіслаў (Uładzisłaŭ); Polish: Władysław, Włodzisław; Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Ukrainian: Владислав) is a male given name of Slavic origin.

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Vyacheslav

Vyacheslav, also transcribed as Viacheslav or Viatcheslav (Vjačeslav; V"jačeslav), is a Russian and Ukrainian masculine given name.

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West Frisian language

West Frisian, or simply Frisian (Frysk; Fries) is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland (Fryslân) in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisian ancestry.

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Xenia (name)

Xenia (also Xeniya, Ksenia, Kseniya, Ksenija or Xena; derived from Greek ξενία xenia - "hospitality") is a female name used mainly in Russia, Ukraine and Greece.

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Yaroslav

Yaroslav or Yaroslavl may refer to.

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Yefim

Yefim is a given name, also spelled as Efim.

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Yevgeny

Yevgeny (Евгений, also transliterated as Evgeni, Evgenii, Evgeniy, Evgeny, Yevgeni, Yevgeniy, Jevgeni, Jevgeny) is the Russian variant of the given name Eugene.

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Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish/idish, "Jewish",; in older sources ייִדיש-טײַטש Yidish-Taitsh, Judaeo-German) is the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews.

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Yury

Yury, Yuri, Youri, Yurii, Yuriy, Yurij, Iurii or Iouri is the Slavic (Jurij, or Jurij, or Jurij, or Juryj) form of the masculine given name George; it is derived directly from the Greek form Georgios and related to Polish Jerzy, Dutch Joeri and Czech Jiří.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocorism

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