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As a follow-up to Difficult diminutives, my daughter just brought home a homework, where she is supposed to find diminutives with -inho and -ola. I've never seen or heard diminutives with -ola, and...
May 28, 2026
As a follow-up to Difficult diminutives, my daughter just brought home a homework, where she is supposed to find diminutives with -inho and -ola. I've never seen or heard diminutives with -ola, and... @ANeves interestingly thefreedictionary mentions that hallo (from where the Portuguese alô derived) is «a variant of hollo, itself variant of earlier holla < Middle French hola = ho ahoy + la there» (1560–70).
Understanding the Context
Current Portuguese pronunciation of alô has a closer phonetic similarity to the French allô than the English hello.