Spake Chad Perrin on Saturday, June 12, 2004 at 04:15PM -0400:
> Dylan William Hardison wrote:
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> >Now we just need an O', perhaps an O'Brien. Or an O'Reilly
>
> That should be O'Logan, actually, to continue the trend. Then we'd have an
> ap Logan and a Logansen.
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> >and the ever popular -son suffix, introduced by the vikings and/or
> >normans...
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> No self-respecting Viking would spell it -son. It's -sen, son.
Well, depends on where it is from. -sen is Danish or Dutch (Dutch
also has -dochter, though -sen is usually used for both genders).
The ending -son is Icelandic (and Icelandic also has -dóttir).
Some say Icelandic is closer to old norse then any of the other
Scandinavian languages, in that it has changed the least.
Norwegians names can have either -sen or -son (e.g. petersen or peterson),
according to my norwegian friend.
> >And Russians have a special "father's name" separate from the lastname.
> >Someone with the name Alexandr, his children will be (firstname)
> >Alexandrovich (lastname)...
>
> For a son it would be Alexandrovich or Alexadrov, and for a daughter it
> would be Alexandrovna or Alexandrova. I'm not entirely clear on why
> there's two sets for each gender.
Ya, there's that. I was going for the simple example.
Also you use the patronym if you're refering to a friend,
unless you're using a diminutive of their name (or so I'm told).
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"There are no good ways."
-- Sulu and Kirk, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown
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