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A hypocorism (/haɪˈpɒkərɪzəm/hy-POK-ər-iz-əm or /ˌhaɪpəˈkɒrɪzəm/HY-pə-KORR-iz-əm; from Ancient Greek: ὑποκόρισμα (hypokorisma), from ὑποκορίζεσθαι (hypokorizesthai), 'to call by pet names', 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.
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/-ie (phonologically /-i/).[3] Sometimes the suffix -o is included as well as other forms[4][5][6] or templates.[7]
Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names, and nouns.[4] Hypocorisms are usually considered distinct from diminutives, but they can also overlap.[6][4]
^"hypocorism". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
^McGregor, William B. (2015). Linguistics: An Introduction (2. ed.). London: Bloomsbury. p. 86. ISBN 9780567483393.
^ abcBromhead, Helen (9 March 2021). "Gatho, lippy, rego — why Australians love hypocoristics". Lingoblog.dk. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
^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.
^ abLipski, 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.
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