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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The name of someone's mother.
- n. A matronymic surname.
Etymologies
- From mater "mother" + -onym "name" (Wiktionary)
Examples
“According to her daughter, Dr. Mariassa Bat-Miriam Katsenelson, Yokheved Bat-Miriam intentionally changed her last name from a patronym (Zhelezniak) to a matronym, Bat-Miriam, “because she saw herself as the daughter of that same Miriam, the sister of Moses, the first woman poet in Israel.””
“A matronym on the other hand is said to be marked by the other genitive, -l a gentilicium coming from the mother's side.”
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna
“Her first Hebrew poem was published under the matronym “Bat-Hedvah,” Hedvah being a Hebraized form of her mother’s nickname “Freude” (Yaoz-Kest in Anda: Kovez Ma’amarim, 132).”
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mialuthien See metronym. Jul 19, 2008