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[Facts] Re: Russian diminutives for Luna
by jennifer
8/3/2013, 4:31 PM
in reply to a message by HailCthulhu
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).
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- 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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