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Magda Opalski
Magda is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of names such as Magdalena, which may refer to: * Magda Apanowicz (born 1985), Canadian actress * Magda B. Arnold (1903–2002), Czechoslovakian-born American psychologist * Magda Danysz (born 1974), French art curator and art dealer * Magda Davitt, name in 2017 of Sinéad O'Connor (born 1966), Irish singer-songwriter * Magda Femme, Polish pop singer and songwriter born Magdalena Pokora in 1971 * Magdolna Magda Gabor (1915–1997), Hungarian-American actress and socialite * Magda Gerber (1910–2007), Hungarian-born early childhood educator in the United States * Magda Giannikou (born 1981), Greek-born composer, film scorer, singer, pianist and accordionist * Johanna Maria Magdalena Magda Goebbels (1901–1945), wife of Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels * María Magdalena Magda Guzmán (1931–2015), Mexican film and television actress * Magda Ianculescu (1929–1995), Romanian operatic soprano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |