EN
Diminutive and hypocoristic forms, relatively numerous in the language of Słowacki, were created primarily with the assistance of formants typical for Polish word-formation. For diminutives – also those from appellatives — that formant is -k-. A greater variety of formats appears in hypocoristic names, including foreign ones, e.g., -i, -y. In reference to persons close to him and to literary figures, Słowacki uses analogous formations. He also creates diminutive and hypocoristic forms from surnames.