Re: Hypocoristics (was: Gemination in Celtic)

At 2:58:50 PM on Wednesday, April 2, 2008, Richard
Wordingham wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>> Actually, I was Totte, quite on my own initiative, if I'm
>> to believe my mother; Danish, Norwegian and German do not
>> like English Dutch and Swedish have a fixed system of
>> proper vs. hypochoristic name; in Swedish the
>> hypochoristic name for Torsten is indeed Totte. However,
>> the Scandinavian languages have þ- > t-, English doesn't.

> Theodore > Teddy
> Elizabeth > Betty
> Nathaniel > Nat
> Nathan > Nate
> Catherine > Kate, Katy, Kitty

And <Cat>.

> Cynthia > Cindy (irregular)

Bartholomew > Bate, Bat(t)
Mat(t)hew > Matt

Brian