Hossein Askari
Is there "son of" in your name?

In many languages "son of" is used at the end of sb's name to show their ancestry or just as a suffix in their surname.

In Farsi, we have "پور pour" meaning : son, but is used in the surname for both boys and girls.

What about your language? Do you have such a case in your country?

5 mrt. 2018 16:23
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Well, 'son' is not technically in my name. However, for years I thought that it was. It's my father's fault. He use to say things like "Son, you'd better milk those cows or I'm gonna make you wish you had." 


6 maart 2018
4

The 'Mac' in my second name is from Scottish Gaelic and means 'son of'.  Most surnames in Gaelic use this construction.

In Gaelic itself, there is also a 'daughter of' (Nic), but it wasn't retained in English.    This annoys me a lot, because my name is from a Norse personal name which meant 'ugly', so in English my name translates as 'son of ugly'.  At least in the Gaelic original, I got to be 'daughter of ugly'. :D

5 maart 2018
3

Katarina, 

suffix -ić is used to make diminutive of a noun and in this case it's diminutive of a name. It shows belonging to someone. Like "ptica" has "ptiće", Jovan has "Jovaniće". It's very descriptive actually. :) 

Some nouns have origins in male names and they denote son of someone. On the contrary, there are names that have origins in female names. It's assumed that those, who have female name in a root of their last name, were raised by a female as a head of the family because father probably died. 

6 maart 2018
3

icelandic has daughter-of and son-of. 

In England we have plenty of surnames with -son or -man so Williamson, Samson, Wilson, is well known and we also have hyphenated surnames for when people cannot make their mind up which name to choose.  Sometimes wives take their husband's name when they marry, sometimes no one changes but the children take a hyphenated name and sometimes (not often) the husband takes the wife's name which causes much humour.

5 maart 2018
3

In Danish many surnames end on ”sen”, which means ”son of”:

Jensen (son of Jens)

Hansen (son of Hans)

Petersen (son of Peter)

etc.

5 maart 2018
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