Translation
male pet name, root clipped short
Examples
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Daddy, will you come with us?
fraĉjo .
My brother is younger than me.
Johano Joĉjo .
Uncle Johano became Johnny to everyone.
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Dad worked in the garden all day.
o o.
We have called him Bill since childhood.
-- is the affix that eats its own root. Every other suffix in Esperanto attaches to the whole word; this one requires you to chop the root back to roughly one, two or three letters first, then add -ĉjo. So shortens to pa and becomes , dad. gives fraĉjo, Johano gives Joĉjo, Vilhelmo gives o. The result is always a noun in -o.
The clipping is deliberate and its length is up to you, which is why Joĉjo and Johaĉjo are both formable. What nobody says is o, with the root left whole.
Its female mirror is --, which clips the same way: becomes . And do not reach for -- here. o is a small father, not your dad.
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