How do your people form nicknames from given names? In English, we have the following methods:>truncation/shortening: Joseph > Joe, Zachary > Zach or Zack, Elizabeth > Liz or Beth; as you can see, spelling is sometimes changed even when pronunciation is preserved>special forms which are specific to certain names: Robert > Bob, Theodore > Ted, Mary > Molly, Margaret > Meg or Peg; these often coexist with more regular truncations, e.g. Robert can also become Rob>adding -y/i/ie (all pronounced the same) to the end of a name OR to one of the above forms: Robert > Bobby, George > Georgy, Ann(e) > AnnieAlso there's variation across the Anglosphere, like in Australia I know they use -o as a suffix (David > Davo), but other anons can talk more about that.
>>221486840I don't know
Lengthen a consonant and put -e at the end is the most common pattern:Karl > KalleLars > LasseDaniel > DanneUlf > UffeMadeleine > Maddeetc.
>>221486853Even I know that you truncate the name and add -ya or -sha.>>221487041What phonological effect does the lengthened consonant have?
>>221487176Can change the preceding vowel sound. A short consonant is always preceded by a long vowel and vice versa iirc, and some short and long vowels sound different. Compare https://forvo.com/search/karl/sv/ and https://forvo.com/search/kalle/sv/.
>>221487176That's not a nickname? That's just name variant. Nickname is something like Petya Cock-knuckle Petrov where the nickname would be a Cock-knuckle and been given to him by people who know him and because of some event or occasion or his trait.
>>221487501A nickname can be a moniker (what you're describing) or a hypocorism (what I described).
>>221488061But Pasha, Sasha, Kasha and etc. aren't nicknames its just your name
>>221488149Nobody puts those on their birth certificates though. If your legal name is Aleksandr and you're called Sasha, then Sasha is a nickname.
>>221488340But your legal name is Alexander Byslovuch Alkash
>>221488149Can't they be both nicknames and proper names? Sometimes Kalle is used as a proper name here, for example, derived from the nickname.
>>221488149Is it true it’s considered rude to call someone by their birth name in Russia? Like you have to use a nickname to not sound like a dick?
>>221486840Nobody's ever used nicknames for my names because they all sound really bad and basically don’t exist in Portuguese
>>221488460No? You call your friends and family by small name, or close coworker, but when like your boss calls you by your small name its belittleing
>>221488844Is your name a Portuguese name that doesn't have any traditional nicknames? Or is it more of a Cleiton situation?
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>>221486840How the fuck you get Peg from Margaret?
>>221491955Margaret > Meg > Peg. We also have Mary > Molly > Polly, along with other nicknames that involve a change in the initial consonant like William > Will > Bill and Richard > Rick > Dick.
nobody has ever called me by my legal first name
>>221489031My name is Hebrew, and it’s not even that obscure desu, it's just that nobody really came up with nicknames for it. Cleiton has a million nicknames though, like Cleitinho, Cleitin, Tom and stuff like that
>>221486840The most common must be shortening, kind of like what you described>Thomas - Tom>Nicolas - Nico>Mélanie - Mel>Clémence - ClemYou can also double the first consonnant>Gérard - Gégé>Kévin - Kéké>Sophie - SosoSometimes you can add suffixes,like an -o at the end (Paul -> Paulo), sometimes it can get more fancy
>>221494147Duplication is used here too, like the tennis player Coco Gauff and the model Gigi Hadid. But it's not especially common, and it's almost never used for boys.
