I live in Alsace, which is in France but has a German-like dialect (Alemannic) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsatian_dialect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki

I live in Alsace, which is in France but has a German-like dialect (Alemannic) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsatian_dialect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsatian_dialect -ele is used a lot to denote something small, cute, adorable; maybe think of it as kind of like ちび (chibi) or -ちゃん (-chan) in Japanese. Mann (man) => Mannele https://cookingwithbrendagantt.net/mannele-st-nicholas-bread/ https://cookingwithbrendagantt.net/mannele-st-nicholas-bread... Katz (cat) => katzele (kitty) The suffix can be liberally (ab)used with any - native or foreign - word or (sur)name to emphatic or comedic effect. Here I kinda guessed the -le use was such but around here I would have said "OSele" (oh-ess-uh-luh)