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Swedish diminutive for a Dutch name?
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 11:00 am
by Haloed Bane
I need help with 2 languages I know practically nothing about. Say a Dutch person named "Sien" (pron. [sin] I think) moves to Sweden and picks up a diminutive nickname. What would this likely be? Would something like "Sinnan" work?
Re: Swedish diminutive for a Dutch name?
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:11 pm
by Grunnen
Haloed Bane wrote:I need help with 2 languages I know practically nothing about. Say a Dutch person named "Sien" (pron. [sin] I think) moves to Sweden and picks up a diminutive nickname. What would this likely be? Would something like "Sinnan" work?
I can't comment on the diminutive form the name would take in Swedish, but Dutch <Sien> would indeed be /sin/. What Swedes would typically make of the laminal [s] most Dutch people use I don't know.
Re: Swedish diminutive for a Dutch name?
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 7:49 am
by Haloed Bane
Thank you for confirming pronunciation. I could just go with Sientje I guess...
Re: Swedish diminutive for a Dutch name?
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:36 pm
by Qwynegold
Sinne perhaps. Is this a man or woman?