Timeline for What is the term for using an ancestral given name as a surname?
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 19:19 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 19:01 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | possible duplicate of What is the term for someone who has a last name that can also be a first name? Specifically, this answer | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 18:59 | comment | added | MT_Head | Armenian tradition is a little unusual in that the same suffix is used both for patronymic and geographic names; Grigoryan is a guy whose ancestor was named Grigor, while Alepyan is a guy whose family came from Aleppo. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 18:55 | comment | added | MT_Head | I take issue with "Americanization" in this context; this process has been happening worldwide, for hundreds of years - certainly since the widespread European adoption of surnames and possibly even longer elsewhere. In Scandinavian-derived names there's the suffix -son / -ssen; in Russian there's the suffix -ov; in Ukrainian -enko; in Armenian -ian / -yan; there are surely other patterns I'm forgetting. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 18:16 | answer | added | ermanen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 18:12 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Why in the world would this have a “term” for it? You simply describe it, and you are done. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 18:04 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 17:47 | history | asked | Martin Fischer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |