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  2. Patronymic surname - Wikipedia

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    For example, passports vs early letters of introduction for travel. For example, early patronymic Welsh surnames were the result of the Anglicizing of the historical Welsh naming system, which sometimes had included references to several generations: e.g., Llywelyn ap Gruffydd ap Morgan (Llywelyn son of Gruffydd son of Morgan), and which gave ...

  3. Category:Patronymic surnames - Wikipedia

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    Topics about Patronymic surnames in general should be placed in relevant topic categories. This category is for surnames that are derived from patronyms . For example, the modern English Johnson is derived from a patronym, and no longer is used to show the name of the bearer's father.

  4. Patronymic - Wikipedia

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    Examples in titles of classical Russian literature include The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich. In Russia, the patronymic is an official part of the name, used in all official documents, and when addressing somebody both formally and among friends.

  5. Ethnonymic surname - Wikipedia

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    Ethnonymic surnames are surnames or bynames that originate from ethnonyms.They may originate from nicknames based on the descent of a person from a given ethnic group. Other reasons could be that a person came to a particular place from the area with different ethnic prevalence, from owing a property in such area, or had a considerable contact with persons or area of other ethnicity.

  6. Paronymic attraction - Wikipedia

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    Paronymic attraction is the origin of many names. There are even cross-linguistic instances of such attractions. For example, the resemblance between the Romanian word locaţie (space for which rent should be paid) and the English word location helped a semantic shift of the former word to include the latter sense. [1]

  7. Category:Patronymics - Wikipedia

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  8. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    The patronymic is formed by a combination of the father's name and suffixes. The suffix is -ович (-ovich) for a son, -овна (-ovna) – for a daughter. For example, if the father's name was Иван (Ivan), the patronymic will be Иванович (Ivanovich) for a son and Ивановна (Ivanovna) for a daughter.

  9. List of Latinised names - Wikipedia

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    Cassivellaunus (Cassivellaunus, king of the Catuvellauni. The original form is Cassiuellaunos; exists in Welsh as Caswallan); Hannō (Various Carthaginians typically known as "Hanno" (after this latinised form) in English and Punic: 𐤇‬𐤍‬𐤀‬ ḤNʾ in Punic)