En réponse à Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>:
>
> Re: diminutives: The ones I am familiar with are: -le, (Channa >
> Channale) and
> -ke (Shlomo [Solomon]> Slomke) both AFAIK to Hebrew via Yiddish.
> Where Yiddish got them from I don't know.
I don't know for -le, but -ke is definitely Germanic. It's found as is in
Frisian and Dutch, and is probably cognate with German -chen.
>
> Maybe overexposure to the Spanish-language soap operas
> that fill up our airwaves! ;-)
>
No Brasilian ones? ;))))
Christophe.
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