patronymic
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Genealogist Calum MacNeil said patronymic names were popular when he was growing up in Nask, a small community in Barra.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2025
“This is exactly what we were doing, Dmytro Volodymyrovych,” she addressed him respectfully, with his patronymic.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
Cedillo responded, “I bet it ends in i-a-n,” referring to the traditional patronymic in Armenian surnames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Tetyana, who identified herself by her first name and patronymic but did not give her family name, was released after being held for four days.
From Reuters ● Apr. 4, 2022
And we have not, as I believe, a single instance in our surnames of a scriptural name in an Anglo-Saxon patronymic form, as the Germans, judging from the above, might—possibly may—have.
From Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson
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