Re: "rin" honorific?

Gordon Freeman <G...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there such an honorific or suffix for a name as "rin" beyond random
cuteness?

I just saw it claimed that "rin" is a cute form of "chan", but AFAIK that
would be "chin". I thought changing a name to end in -rin (the examples
given being Kaori -> Kaorin and Kimura -> Kimurin was just a cutesy way of
talking, not any kind of actual honorific.

This article says that "-rin" first appeared in 1980s
and possibly comes from English (CatheRINE or MariLYN).

http://kotobakai.seesaa.net/article/8173861.html


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