--- In [email protected], "llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Patronymics - naming a child - like naming some bastard > new age technique Buddhist.
Main Entry:
pat·ro·nym·ic
Function:
noun
Etymology:
ultimately from Greek patronymia patronymic, from
patr- + onyma name more at name
Date:
1612
: a name derived from that of the father or a paternal
ancestor usually by the addition of an affix.
...as in, Ivan Ivanovich Smegma. Ivan son
of Ivan, last name Smegma. Ivanovich is the
patronymic.
