Category talk:English words suffixed with -y (diminutive noun)

Category:English words suffixed with -y (diminutive noun)
These two categories seem to overlap. Can we merge them? If so, which category name should we retain? — SGconlaw (talk) 18:22, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Pinging who created the categories. — SGconlaw (talk) 18:23, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Category:English words suffixed with -y (diminutive) seems to be the larger. Let's go with that one. I will move the contents of the other. Leasnam (talk) 20:51, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * As almost all of these appear to be nouns, let's just rename both into Category:English diminutive nouns suffixed with -y. We can leave tinny out (I'm not sure that's really a diminutive), and leave sissy in, as it has a noun form. bd2412 T 20:58, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I suppose "Category:English diminutive nouns suffixed with -y" would be a subcategory of both "Category:English diminutive nouns" and "Category:English words suffixed with -y"? — SGconlaw (talk) 21:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Etymology 2 of tinny does appear to be a diminutive use of -y (variant of ). — SGconlaw (talk) 21:34, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * So it's diminutive of a missing noun sense, yes? bd2412 T 04:35, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I suppose so. I’m guessing a diminutive noun doesn’t always have a non-diminutive etymon with a corresponding sense. In this case the etymon is tin, but tin doesn’t exactly mean “a large can of beer; a boat”, etc. — SGconlaw (talk) 04:41, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
 * My takeaway would be that if everything else in the category clearly has a noun sense, then I would not fret over the exclusion of one questionable case from the category tree. bd2412 T 01:43, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

RFC discussion: June 2021

 * See Category talk:English words suffixed with -y (diminutive noun).