patronymic
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Genealogist Calum MacNeil said patronymic names were popular when he was growing up in Nask, a small community in Barra.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2025
Another time he had addressed a prison official by his military rank rather than the more respectable name and patronymic.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022
Cedillo responded, “I bet it ends in i-a-n,” referring to the traditional patronymic in Armenian surnames.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2022
"I, and Ramzan Akhmatovich even more so, are the most cultured of people," Prigozhin said, using Kadyrov's patronymic as a sign of respect.
From Reuters • Oct. 3, 2022
And in the end O'Hara, who was also proud of his Milesian patronymic, was obliged to admit he was right.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by O'Shea, John Augustus
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