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Help[Facts] Diminutive of Rosa
in reply to a message by Cleveland Kent Evans
Rosinha is a diminutive form of Rosa, in Portuguese. Just as Carlinhos is a diminutive of Carlos and Martinha is a diminutive of Marta, e.g.
The diminutive lexeme -INHO/-INHA (and the variant -ZINHO/-ZINHA) is the usual diminutive lexeme, and it very usual in Portuguese, where the diminutive forms (in names and in words) are more usual that in other languages:
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/educacao/ult305u2527.shtml
In Portuguese, NH has the same sound as in Occitan (NY in Catalan and Hungarian, GN in French, Ñ in Spanish...)
Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
The diminutive lexeme -INHO/-INHA (and the variant -ZINHO/-ZINHA) is the usual diminutive lexeme, and it very usual in Portuguese, where the diminutive forms (in names and in words) are more usual that in other languages:
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/educacao/ult305u2527.shtml
In Portuguese, NH has the same sound as in Occitan (NY in Catalan and Hungarian, GN in French, Ñ in Spanish...)
Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
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Thank you very much for this information! I had no idea that "nh" was simply how they wrote Ñ in Portuguese.
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