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Minnie Monkey
As a first name, Minnie is a feminine given name. It can be a diminutive (hypocorism) of Minerva (other), Minerva, Winifred (other), Winifred, Wilhelmina (given name), Wilhelmina, Hermione (given name), Hermione, Mary (given name), Mary, Miriam (given name), Miriam, Maria (given name), Maria, Marie (given name), Marie, Naomi (given name), Naomi, Miranda (given name), Miranda, Clementine (given name), Clementine or Amelia (given name), Amelia. It may refer to: People with the given name * Minnie Tittell Brune (1875–1974), American stage actress * Minnie Julia Beatrice Campbell, Minnie Campbell (1862–1952), Canadian clubwoman, lecturer, and editor * Minnie D. Craig (1883–1966), American legislator and the first female speaker of a state House of Representatives (North Dakota) in the United States * Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882–1964), suffrage politician and first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters * Minnie Devereaux (1891–1984), Canadian C ... [...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] |