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The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although forms in modern languages are given for families in which the older stages of the languages are poorly documented or do not differ significantly from the modern languages.
The word matronymic is first attested in English in 1794 and originates in the Greek μήτηρ mētēr "mother" (GEN μητρός mētros whence the combining form μητρo- mētro-), [1] ὄνυμα onyma, a variant form of ὄνομα onoma "name", [2] and the suffix -ικός-ikos, which was originally used to form adjectives with the sense "pertaining to" (thus "pertaining to the mother ...
Type of name: 1: Can be left blank for patronymic default. Default patronymic Example patronymic, matronymic or both: Unknown: optional: Link: 2: Link to naming convention as it relates to [[surname]] Default surname Example [[Naming conventions in Ethiopia and Eritrea]], [[Iceladic name]] Page name: suggested
There are over 68,000 Dutch family names. Thai names have included a family name only since 1920, and only a single family can use a given family name; hence there are a great number of Thai names. Furthermore, Thai people change their family names with some frequency, complicating the analysis.
A matrilineal surname or matriname [1] [a] is a family name inherited from one's mother, and maternal grandmother, and so on whose line of descent is called a mother-line, mitochondrial line, or matriline. A matriname passed on to subsequent issue is unchanged, as compared to a matronymic, which is derived from the first name of each new mother.
{{Icelandic name|(given name)}} There is an optional parameter to specify the sex of the named parent, and thus say "Matronymic" (female). If the parameter is "surname" then mention of patronym and matronym are suppressed; this is an actual family name, but it is still proper to refer to the person by their given name. NB.
In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]