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Nickname creation through shortening Setswana personal names

South African Journal of African Languages, 2022
This article discusses the changing patterns of nickname formation among the Batswana people. It argues that traditionally, Setswana nicknames were formed in line with Setswana phonotactics. However, with the influence of English, which has official status in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, Setswana nicknames are now formed by shortening them in ...
Thapelo J Otlogetswe, Goabilwe N Ramaeba
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Hindi Personal Names and Nicknames

1985
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Glossary of Personal Names (including nicknames)

1984
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PERSONAL NAMES AND NICKNAMES OF MEDIEVAL TVER

Onomastics of the Volga Region, 2020
The article analyzes a regional system of personal names in the Pre-National period. With reference to the anthroponyms recorded in «Patrol book, Tver 1616», the authors focus on the ways of structural changes of the full forms of male Christian personal names in everyday communication.
I.M. Ganzhina, M.Yu. Chernenok
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Personal and Eponymous Nicknames in Historical Retrospective

Russian language at school, 2020
The article is devoted to the genesis of personal and eponymous nicknames as a vivid phenomenon in the history of language and speech, which has irrefutable potential for developing methods of teaching and educating schoolchildren. The main varieties of nicknames, the conditions for their formation and the specifics of daily life in different ...
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Dynamics of multiculturally motivated Russian nicknames (case study: characteristic nicknames of persons with reference to individual concepts of non-native real and fictional worlds)

Proceedings of the International Conference on Onomastics ”Name and Naming”., 2022
The paper is aimed at the comparative micro‑diachronic analysis of Russian anthroponymic nicknames recorded from 2003 to 2021 in Novosibirsk, Russia. It fosters a deeper understanding of multiculturalism in unconventional nomination. Particularly, the following aspects of multicultural influences are analysed: 1) spheres of real and fictional worlds as
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Hebrew Names, Personal Names, Family Names and Nicknames of Jews in the Second Temple Period

2001
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Three Items Related to Personality: Popularity, Nicknames, and Homesickness

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1949
(1949). Three Items Related to Personality: Popularity, Nicknames, and Homesickness. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 155-158.
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AN ETYMOLOGICAL STUDY OF PERSONAL NICKNAMES (The case of amudaryo district)

RESEARCH ON UZBEK FOLKLORE AND DIALECTS: PRACTICE, METHODOLOGY, AND NEW APPROACHES
n. This article presents a comparative analysis of the nicknames of certain residents of the Amudaryo district in the Republic of ...
Zamira Ibragimova, Shohruh Suronov
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Formal Names Versus Nicknames in the Context of Personal Ads

The Journal of Social Psychology, 2004
Michelle L, English, Benjamin R, Stephens   +1 more
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