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Kosie Welman
Kosie is a South African male given name. It is a hypocorism of Jacobus. Notable people with the name include: * Kosie Marais (1900–1963), South African brandy maker * Kosie Pretorius Jacobus Willem Francois Pretorius, commonly known as Kosie Pretorius (5 September 1935Kosie Venter (born 1969), South African cricket player {{given name African masculine given names ... [...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] |
Kosie Marais
Jacobus Petrus (Kosie) Marais (22 June 1900 – 8 April 1963), was the son of Jacobus Petrus (Kowie) Marais and Catharina Elizabeth (Kitty) Eksteen. He was known for brandy-making. Background Marais grew up on the farm Wonderfontein close to Robertson, Cape Colony. As a child in school his brother Eksteen (Johannes Eksteen) and he had a workshop and laboratory on the farm. In the workshop they generated electricity. In the laboratory they experiment with gunpowder. In 1921 Kosie had to stop his studies at Stellenbosch University and had to farm as his father Kowie was ill. His father died in 1922. Eksteen and Kosie became owners of the farms Klipdrift and Wonderfontein. His sister Judith Maria Magdalena, helped on the farm too. She later married a de Wet. His oldest brother, Ernst Jacobus, died young in 1918. Kosie operated on Klipdrift and Eksteen on Wonderfontein. On Klipdrift Kosie made brandy and liqueurs. In 1957 the two brothers split. Kosie got Klipdrift, and Eksteen Won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosie Pretorius
Jacobus Willem Francois Pretorius, commonly known as Kosie Pretorius (5 September 1935CV at Namibian Parliament website – 14 July 2017), was a n politician. He was the Chairman of the party, which mainly represents conservative , and was a member of the |
Kosie Venter
Jacobus "Kosie" Francois Venter (born 1 October 1969) is a former South African cricketer. Venter was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born at Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. In a professional career that lasted from the 1989/90 to the 2003/04 South African cricket seasons, Venter played both the first-class and List A formats of the game with no fewer than six different sides. Debuting in the 1989/90 season for Orange Free State, he proceeded to play first-class and List A cricket for Orange Free State, Transvaal B and Free State. He later played List A cricket in England for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1996 and the Worcestershire Cricket Board in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. Venter also played Second XI cricket in England for the Leicestershire Second XI in 1994. In his first-class career, he played 108 times scoring 5,066 runs at a batting average of 30.15, with five centuries and thirty-two half centuries and making a high score of 193. An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |