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ken/ -chen, 15th century-on): bodkin, cannikin, catkin, lambkin, manikin, napkin, pannikin, ramekin, welkin (OE wolcen) -ey/ -ie/ -y (Scottish-Dutch dim., 15th century-on): cookie (1703), daddy (c.ultat-): culottes, harlot (13th century), Charlotte, Diderot, Lancelot (1180), Margot, Peugeot, Pierrot -ot/ -otte (F ablaut or assimilative dim.1300), puppet (16th century), rabbit (1380), Sagitta, señorita, spaghetti, suffragette, swallet (c. 1400), gambit (1656), kitchenette, marionette, minuet, oubliette, palette, pallet (1350s), parquet, poppet (c. -et/ -ette/ -etti/ -etto/ -it/ -ita/ -ito/ -itta (F-S-I-L diminutive -itat-): amaretto, burrito, cigarette, clarinet, courgette, diskette, fajita, falsetto, faucet (c.1300 ML quaccula), rail (1320 L regula), rail (1460 VL rasculum), rail (1450s VL ragula), roll (c. 1300, ME gridel, F gredil, VL graticula cognate with E hurdle), grille (1661), jail (1250s F jaiole, nF gaiole, VL gabiola, L caveola), mail (1320 L macula), pill (1400), quail (c.

iol-): broil (14th century F brusle), broil (15th century VL brodicula), griddle (c.

-el/ -il/ -ille/-l/-le (Norman-Francish lenite -c-/-g- or metathetic -i- dim.

-erel/-rel (Franco-Latin comparative, pejorative -(t)eriale): cockerel (1450s), coistrel (1570s), doggerel (1249), dotterel (15th century), gangrel (14th century), hoggerel, kestrel (15th century), mackerel (c.

-ling (Norse diminutive-patrinominative): darling, duckling, fingerling, gosling, underling.

Loanwords and native English words using foreign-language diminutives

-y (assimilative -y): buddy, doggy, horsey.

-a ( Geordie assimilative -er): Gazza, Macca.

-er/-ers/ -ster (diminutive, hypocoristic, also elided rhotic -a): bonkers (1948), preggers (1940), starkers (1905), Becker, Lizzers, Hankster, Patster.

-o (American nicknaming, later Commonwealth): bucko, daddio, garbo, kiddo, smoko, wacko, Jacko, Ricko,.

-sie/-sies/-sy ( babytalk assimilative or from patrici- of Patsy): bitsy, footsie (1930), halfsies, onesies, popsy (1860), teensy-weensy, tootsie (1854), twosies, Betsy, Patsy, Robsy.

-ish (disparative): largish, reddish, smallish, tallish.

-le (frequentative -l): puddle, sparkle.

-n/ -en/-on (accusative or feminine): chicken, kitten, maiden.

-k/ -ock/-uck: bollock, bullock, buttock, fetlock, hillock, mattock (OE mattuc), mullock, pillock, stalk, whelk, yolk.

Native English endings that could be seen as diminutives

The most common include shortening a longer name (e.g., " Pete" for Peter) or adding the diminutive suffix / i/ (" movie" for moving picture), variously spelled -y (" Sally" for Sarah), -ie (" Maggie" for Margaret), and -i (" Dani" for Danielle). Productive diminutives are infrequent to nonexistent in Standard English in comparison with many other languages. Indo-European languages Germanic languages English Įnglish has a great variety of historical diminutives adopted from other languages but many of these are lexicalized. 1.1.1.2 Loanwords and native English words using foreign-language diminutives.1.1.1.1 Native English endings that could be seen as diminutives.