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Historically, diminutives of the given names were used in reference to commoners, to indicate an their low status: Stenka Razin, Grishka Rasputin, etc. A diminutive could be used by persons of a higher class when referring to themselves to indicate humility, e.g., when addressing to the tsar.
There are also diminutives that lexicalized, e.g., stołek (stool), which is grammatically a diminutive of stół (table). In many cases, the possibilities for creation of diminutives are seemingly endless and leave room for the creation of many neologisms. Some examples of common diminutives: Feminine
Modern East Slavic names are tripartite, consisting of family name, given name, and patronymic. Each of these components can be used alone or in different combinations; additionally, most given names have suppletively derived short form, which can be further suffixed to produce a number of diminutives conveying different emotional meaning and applicable in different contexts.
Nikola (Cyrillic: Никола) is a given name which, like Nicholas, is a version of the Greek Nikolaos (Νικόλαος) and it means "the winner of the people". [1] [2] It is common as a masculine given name in the South Slavic countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia), while in West Slavic countries (Czech Republic, Poland ...
Diminutives in isolating languages may grammaticalize strategies other than suffixes or prefixes. In Mandarin Chinese , for example, other than the nominal prefix 小- xiǎo- and nominal suffixes -儿/-兒 -r and -子 -zi , reduplication is a productive strategy, e.g., 舅 → 舅舅 and 看 → 看看 . [ 3 ]
Diminutive and hypocoristic forms are male names native to the Ukrainian language that have either an empty inflexional suffix (Івась, Павлусь, Гриць) or the affixes -о, -ик (Славко, Грицько, Василько, Андрійчик, Петрик, Дмитрик). [1]
Nikolai or Nikolay is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name Nicholas. It may refer to: People. Royalty. Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), or Nikolay I, ...
In addition, some Bulgarian names may be of Thracian (e.g. Neno, Dako, Geto) or Bulgar (Boris, Boyan, Biser) origin. Since the Bulgarian National Revival and the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878 names of successful medieval Bulgarian rulers , like Asen , Asparuh , Ivaylo , Samuil , Simeon or Krum , have also gained a lot of popularity.