How To Use matronymic In A Sentence
- “Kunyat” = patronymic or matronymic; a name beginning with “Abu” (father) or with “Umm” (mother). The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Even less common is the use of both matronymic and patronymic names – e.g., Matthew Yglesias » The Bjork Fund
- In the above family, the two kids would be named Jón Guðrúnsson and Siga Guðrúnsdottir if matronymic naming was followed. Matthew Yglesias » The Bjork Fund
- Hence the great clans, Habr Gerhajis and Awal, who prefer the matronymic — Habr signifying a mother, — since, according to their dictum, no man knows who may be his sire. 9 These increased and multiplied by connection and affiliation to such an extent that about 300 years ago they drove their progenitors, the Galla, from First footsteps in East Africa
- The “Kuniyah,” bye-name, patronymic or matronymic, is necessary amongst Moslems whose list of names, all connected more or less with religion, is so scanty. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- One explanation for Simons mysterious background lies in his actual name: fitz means son of but FitzMary is in fact a matronymic (i.e. derived from his mothers Christian name) which commonly denoted illegitimate birth (as in Martin FitzAlice, alderman of St Michaels, Paternoster Royal, in 1281). Bedlam
- I think that Iceland was the only one of these countries to use matronymic names regularly. An Unconventional Naming Convention
- I cut off my hair, I went naked in public, I learned ideas by the fistful, I changed my last name to Jochild (a matronymic) and I came back courageous. CLAIMING YOUR PEOPLE: THINK BIG
- It is interesting that their usual surnames are all patronymics or matronymics, rather than the locatives that would be more likely were any of the four from immigrant families.