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man → mānnegie (EN: man → little man) kom → kōmmegie (EN: bowl → little bowl) In East Frisian Low Saxon, -je, -tje, and -pje are used as a diminutive suffix (e.g. huis becomes huisje (little house); boom becomes boompje (little tree)). Compare this with the High German suffix -chen (see above). Some words have a slightly different ...
Otouto (おとうと): little brother. O-nēsan (お-姉さん): big sister, or also a young lady. The descriptive noun is ane (姉). Imouto (いもうと): little sister. The initial o-(お-) prefix in those nouns spelled as such is itself an honorific prefix. In more casual situations the speaker may omit this prefix but keep the suffix.
In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.
man, boor: anybody too old to be пацан, but not old enough to be отец: пацан: patsan (m) lad, boy: teenagers; also used between young men. мальчик: malchik (m) boy: anybody too young to be пацан: чувак чувиха: chuvak (m) chuvikha (f) dude: mostly limited to certain subcultures, or to translate English word ...
In Hull the r is dropped and the word Bain is used. [3] A man with "his boat and bairns" in a calotype print from the 1840s, now in the National Galleries of Scotland. The word was included in the English Dialect Dictionary with variant spellings barn, bayn, bayne that reflect varying pronunciations. [4]
Láukun 老君 (old lord), is a common Hokkien term for Doctor influenced by Taoism and is mainly used in Southeast Asia but can also mean wise man. Dàfū 大夫 (great man), an older title used to address high officials in ancient times, now used colloquially when addressing a doctor. Xiānshēng 先生 (born before) historical, no longer used.
Dwarfism is a condition of people and animals marked by unusually small size or short stature. [1] In humans, it is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 147 centimetres (4 ft 10 in), regardless of sex; the average adult height among people with dwarfism is 120 centimetres (4 ft).
Would you like to make a Mandragora, as powerful as the homunculus (little man in a bottle) so praised by Paracelsus? Then find a root of the plant called bryony. Take it out of the ground on a Monday (the day of the moon), a little time after the vernal equinox. Cut off the ends of the root and bury it at night in some country churchyard in a ...