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Clancy Bowe
Clancy is an Irish name coming from the Gaelic ''Mac Fhlannchaidh/Mac Fhlannchadha'', meaning "Son of the red/ruddy warrior" (Mac being for sons, ''Ní Fhlannchaidh/Ní Fhlannchadha'' would be for daughters), or as a hypocorism for Clarence (given name), Clarence. Notable people with the name include: As a first name * Clancy Barone, American football coach * Clancy Brown, American actor and comedian * Clancy Chassay, English journalist * Clancy Cooper, American actor * Clancy Eccles, Jamaican reggae singer * Clancy Edwards, American track and field sprinter * Clancy Fernando, Sri Lankan admiral * Clancy Hayes, American singer * Clancy O'Connor, American actor * Clancy Pendergast, American football coach * Clancy Rudeforth, Australian rules footballer * Clancy Sigal, American writer * Clancy Smyres, American baseball player * Clancy Williams, American footballer As a last name * Abigail Clancy, English model * Al Clancy, American baseball player * Bobby Clancy, Irish folk m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), 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 Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. 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. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |