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  2. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    -ema (Suffix of Frisian origin, given by Napoleon Bonaparte who used suffixes like these to keep a record of people's origins within the Netherlands) [citation needed]-ems [citation needed]-ėnas (Lithuanian) "son of" [citation needed]-enko , -enka/-anka "son of" [citation needed]

  3. Double-barrelled name - Wikipedia

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    Many double-barrelled names are written without a hyphen, causing confusion as to whether the surname is double-barrelled or not. Notable persons with unhyphenated double-barrelled names include politicians David Lloyd George (who used the hyphen when appointed to the peerage) and Iain Duncan Smith, composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Andrew Lloyd Webber, military historian B. H. Liddell Hart ...

  4. Suffix (name) - Wikipedia

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    A name suffix in the Western English-language naming tradition, follows a person's surname (last name) and provides additional information about the person. Post-nominal letters indicate that the individual holds a position, educational degree, accreditation, office, or honor (e.g. "PhD", "CCNA", "OBE"). Other examples include generational ...

  5. Category:English suffixes - Wikipedia

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    For a comprehensive and longer list of English suffixes, ... This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. F. Family name affixes (2 P) P.

  6. List of English suffixes - Wikipedia

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    Search for List of English suffixes in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the List of English suffixes article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .

  7. Latinisation of names - Wikipedia

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    adding Latinate suffixes to the end of a name (e.g. Meibomius for Meibom), or translating a name with a specific meaning into Latin (e.g. Venator for Italian Cacciatore ; both mean 'hunter'), or choosing a new name based on some attribute of the person (e.g. Daniel Santbech became Noviomagus , possibly from the Latin (actually Latinised Gaulish ...

  8. Wikipedia:List of two-letter combinations - Wikipedia

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    This list of all two-letter combinations includes 1352 (2 × 26 2) of the possible 2704 (52 2) combinations of upper and lower case from the modern core Latin alphabet. A two-letter combination in bold means that the link links straight to a Wikipedia article (not a disambiguation page).

  9. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    These ligatures are proper letters in some Scandinavian languages, and so are used to render names from those languages, and likewise names from Old English. Some American spellings replace ligatured vowels with a single letter; for example, gynæcology or gynaecology is spelled gynecology.