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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Emmy

statuette awarded by the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, 1949, said to be an alteration of Immy, from image.

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Emmy (given name)

Emmy is a feminine (rarely also masculine) given name.

Orthographic variants include Emme, Emmi, Emmie. The name is in many instances a hypocoristic of either Emma (itself being in origin a hypocoristic of a number of ancient Germanic names beginning in ermen) or (more rarely) Emily, or Emmanuel ( Emmanuelle). It came to be used as a separate (rare) German name, given officially in Germany from the later 19th century.

As an officially given feminine name, Emmy ranked 66th in Sweden and 89th in France as of 2010. Emmy is rarely also encountered as a surname.

Notable people with the name include:

  • Emmy Andriesse (1914–1953), Dutch photographer
  • Emmy Krüger (1886-1976), German operatic soprano
  • Emmy Loose (1914-1987), Austrian operatic soprano
  • Emmy Noether (1882–1935), Bavarian Jewish mathematician
  • Emmy Verhey (born 1949), Dutch violinist
  • Emmy Wehlen (1887–1977), German actress
  • Emmy Werner (born 1929), American developmental psychologist

As a familiar form of Emma

  • Emmy Bridgwater (1906–1999, born Emma Frith Bridgwater), English artist and poet
  • Emmy Göring (1893-1973, born Emma Sonnemann), German actress
  • Emmy Hennings (1885–1948, born Emma Maria Cordsen), German performer and poet

As a familiar form of Emilie

  • Emmy Destinn (1878–1930, born Emílie Pavlína Věnceslava Kittlová), Czech operatic soprano

As a familiar form of Emmanuel(le)

  • Emmy Bezzina (born 1945), male Maltese politician
  • Emmy Rossum (born 1986 as Emmanuelle Rossum), American actress

Other

  • Emmy Clarke (born 1991 as Mary Elizabeth Clarke), American actress

Fictional characters

  • Granny (Looney Tunes), the Looney Tunes character nicknamed Emmy in Hare Trimmed
Emmy (Armenian singer)

Emmy (born Emma Bejanyan ; 12 April 1984), is an Armenian singer. Emmy is considered to be one of Armenia's most popular and influential singers, being labelled as a "pop princess" and "Armenian pop icon". Emmy represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and became the country's first non-qualifier.

Emmy (Albanian singer)

Elsina Hidersha (15 March 198928 February 2011), better known by her stage name Emmy, was an Albanian singer. Her most notable hits were "Pse të dua ty", "A ma jep", "Rastësisht u pamë", and "Let It Play".

Emmy (film)

Emmy is a 1934 Hungarian comedy film directed by Steve Sekely and starring Gábor Rajnay, Irén Ágay and Ella Gombaszögi. It is based on a novel by Viktor Rákosi.

Emmy (disambiguation)

Emmy most commonly refers to the Emmy Award, which recognizes excellence in television.

Emmy may also refer to:

  • Emmy (given name)
  • Emmy (Albanian singer) (1989–2011)
  • Emmy (Armenian singer) (born 1984)
  • Hurricane Emmy, in the 1976 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Emmy (film), a 1934 Hungarian comedy

Usage examples of "emmy".

So if there was something that explained Emmy Buttonwood, something that pointed in another direction .

Denbigh, the grandson of General Denbigh, who was in parliament with me, is about to marry my little Emmy?

Marjory told me that her research was on neuromuscular disorders, so I knew Emmy was wrong.

From there he went to Dallas, then Denver, where he won an Emmy covering a skyjacking, and then to the New York local CBS affiliate, where he won another Emmy for investigative reporting.

She rummaged through the refrigerator and could only find the st emmy wild blueberry preserves Becky had made as an adventure last summer.

That it was all over with Emmy was a relief to him, but all the more anxiously he watched this animated correspondence and the increase of the maternal influence.

The aired pilot went on to receive the 1993 Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, an award that Legato shared with Gary Hutzel, Michael Gibson, and Dennis Blakey.

Emmy Tatum, she made the best watermelon pickles any place around, and old Jeannie Bland from up at the forks of the creek, she could make apple cider that would grow bark on a mushroom.

Emmy skurrying off on the arm of George (now grown a dashing young gentleman) and the Colonel seizing up his little Janey, of whom he is fonder than of anything in the world—fonder even than of his “History of the Punjaub.

My cousin Emmy, whose dad told me I was a man at last when I came home from war, and who was my lab partner in physics class at Shortridge High School, lives only about thirty miles east of Dave in Louisiana.

Before Hood left for the night, he wanted to send Emmy Feroche an E-mail to thank her for her help and tell her not to worry about Stiele, for now.

He was also a story editor and editor on Batman: The Animated Series, for which he won an Emmy Award for writing in 1993.

Poor Swartz was seated in a place where Emmy had been accustomed to sit.