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A simple family tree showing the Icelandic patronymic naming system. Icelandic names are names used by people from Iceland.Icelandic surnames are different from most other naming systems in the modern Western world in that they are patronymic or occasionally matronymic: they indicate the father (or mother) of the child and not the historic family lineage.
Pages in category "Icelandic-language surnames" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Norwegian surnames were originally patronymic and similar to the surnames used in modern Iceland, consisting of the father's name and one of the suffixes "-sen"/"-son" (son) or "-datter"/"-dotter" (daughter), depending on the person's gender. Unlike modern surnames (family names), they were specific to a person and were not transferred to a ...
Nearly all Icelandic surnames are strictly patronymic, or in some cases matronymic, as Icelandic society generally does not make use of hereditary family names. A similar situation could, until relatively recently, be found in the continental Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, where hereditary family names came into ...
It should only contain pages that are Icelandic-language masculine surnames or lists of Icelandic-language masculine surnames, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Icelandic-language masculine surnames in general should be placed in relevant topic categories
Those Russian surnames that end with -ov/-ev or -in/-yn are originally patronymic or metronymic possessive adjectivals with the meaning 'son of' or 'daughter/wife of' (the feminine is formed with the -a ending – Smirnova, Ivanova, etc.).
Davíðsdóttir is patronymic surname meaning "daughter of David". Notable people with the surname include: Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir (born 1968), Icelandic professor; Dagný Lísa Davíðsdóttir (born 1997), Icelandic basketball player; Eva Björk Davíðsdóttir (born 1994), Icelandic handball player
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