Resources for Russian first name diminutives

[Helena Goscilo]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Helena Goscilo <goscilo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
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>>
>> 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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