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Re: Russian diminutives for Luna

by jennifer

8/3/2013, 4:31 PM

Usually, the diminutive suffixes are -ka and -echka, so Luna could be Lunka or Lunechka. My Russian name in college was Tanja, and one of my professors said he wanted to call me Tanjechka, like his sister.

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- Rene +1

8/3/2013, 11:02 PM

I checked Lunechka in Cyrillic as лунечка, and Google showed that this form indeed exists. However I got the impression that this diminutive is quite rare (maybe like the "full" name Luna itself).

- jennifer

8/4/2013, 11:10 AM

It's hard to shorten Luna. But the diminutive endings I mentioned are like -ette in French or -ita in Spanish. They're not like Tanja is short for Tatjana. Even if the name isn't shorter, there's some apparent affection because the form is used.

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