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  • Although a government decree in 1856 ended patronymics, some 60 percent of all present day Danish names end in ‘sen’ with Jensen and Nielsen being the most common.
  • In the novel we do not learn Luzhin's patronymic until the last sentences.
  • Probably more significant is the fact that Brown was one of the many neutral names adopted by clansmen who wanted to be rid of their politically incorrect Gaelic patronymics.
  • A Russian system of patronymics is still widely used.
  • 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.
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  • Her patronymic should follow in the next two lines, consisting of her father's gentilicium and Greek cognomen.
  • They were always smart and neatly dressed, and always called each other - in public - by their first name and patronymic.
  • I'd love to check out MacBeth, considering we sort of have the same name: MacVay in Gaelic is MacBheatha, same as his name (though his was a given name, not a patronymic, and we aren't related). Celebrating Scotland
  • However, she later explains that Adriaen did not use the patronymic.
  • I feel no allegiance or kinship to my slave names despite their being patronymic a name descended from the father. Blue Rage, Black Redemption
  • Addressing someone formally also entails using the person's full name and patronymic.
  • Xhosa speakers are patrilineal and have patronymic clans, but neither clans nor lineages have any ‘on the ground’ existence.
  • Irish patronymic Shea was euphonized into Shays, as a set-off for the debasing of French _chaise_ into _shay_, was more dangerous than that of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
  • Explaining patronymics to a four year old is always a difficult thing.
  • I'm now 99% sure I have at least one of the patronymics wrong, so again, I solicit advice on them.
  • Probably more significant is the fact that Brown was one of the many neutral names adopted by clansmen who wanted to be rid of their politically incorrect Gaelic patronymics.
  • 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
  • She replied addressing him Russian style using his patronymic.
  • The memory trick of naming individuals by patronymics, or ‘sloinneadh’ in Gaelic, is the centuries-old system of placing an individual within an extended family system.
  • Adult acquaintances and casual friends usually talk to each other using the first name combined with the patronymic.
  • Capteen, for your ease, and to conform to Western customs, I will leave out our patronymic middle names. DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
  • Even less common is the use of both matronymic and patronymic names – e.g., Matthew Yglesias » The Bjork Fund
  • Iceland also upholds another Norse tradition - using patronymics rather than surnames.
  • Documents dating between 1521 and 1524 attest that he had assumed the cognomen Lieto, the Italian version of Laetus, substituting this for his actual patronymic, Allegri.
  • Iceland also upholds another Norse tradition - using patronymics rather than surnames.
  • Documents dating between 1521 and 1524 attest that he had assumed the cognomen Lieto, the Italian version of Laetus, substituting this for his actual patronymic, Allegri.
  • “Kunyat” = patronymic or matronymic; a name beginning with “Abu” (father) or with “Umm” (mother). The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Thus, everyone has a patronymic, or father's name.
  • As the daughter's patronymic appears immediately after her name, so the same patronymic should also appear in column III immediately after her mother's name, here as husband.

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