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Peppi
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Bavarian
Alternative forms
bar Pepi
Pronunciation
bar /ˈpe̞pi/ /b̥e̞b̥i/
Proper noun
bar male, short form of Josef
Finnish
Etymology
From fi Peppi Pitkätossu, a character in a children's book by Astrid Lindgren, known in English as en Pippi Longstocking. Translated as Peppi by Laila Järvinen fi in 1946, since Pippi would have negative meanings in Finnish (see fi pipi, fi pippeli).
The name may be explained as a short form of it Peppina, an fi it - diminutive of it Giuseppina Josephine.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi female in regular use since the 1990s.
Declension
Pe pp p ä
Statistics
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