Resources for Russian first name diminutives

[Helena Goscilo]

A comparable *Словарь русских личных имен *of 1980, edited by Nikolai A.
Petrovskii, contains more than 20 diminutives for Vladimir, including
Vladia and Vlada, Ladia and Lada, Vovulia, Vovusia, Volia, and
... Dima--something any Dmitrii (Lzhe- or not) might resent. This handy
volume was brought out by Russkii iazyk, and it may be an earlier version
of the one cited by Steve. Extremely useful if still obtainable.

Helena

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Steve Marder <asured at verizon.net> wrote:

> Brian,
>
> One reference work which immediately comes to mind is the 1995 book
> "Словарь русских личных имен" by A. N. Tikhonov, L. Z. Boyarinova, and A.
> G. Ryzhkova, which lists not only Вова and Влад, but Вован and many, many
> other diminutives for Владимир. As its title indicates, the book is a
> dictionary. Main entries are given as full forms of the name but there is
> no index of diminutives which reference the full forms, and so in order to
> find a diminutive you need to go to the main headword entry. The Wiki
> article mentioned by Gasan has quite a good listing at the end.
>
> Steve Marder
>
> ============================================
>
> Dear SEELANGers,
>
> Does anyone know of a reference work, preferably in something like
> dictionary format, that deals with the diminutive forms of Russian first
> names? I need something that would tell me that Вова is a short form of
> Владимир, and that Владимир has the short forms Вова, Влад, etc.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Brian Hayden
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