hypocoric - from the Greek to use child talk
erm no - I know people whine when I say ' erm no' and scream god knows what..... but
Hypo -ὑπό under or leedol
core - κόρη girl or daughter - coros is boy
and that is it. - I was attracted to his, as the dicitonary ( liddel scott this time) says the well known:
pupil of the eye, because a little image appears therein (v. Pl.Alc.1.133a), “κύκλοπα κούρην”
and if you wish to say the pupils of the eye are difft sizes, you use
anisocoria...
"forming a diminutive of endearment," 1650s, hypocoristick, from Greek hypo- "under, beneath, less than." Related: Hypocoristical (c. 1600).
speech wd be legw or fee-mee