patronym

• ““I think she's added muscle tone dragging around the big patronym.””

  Fictionaut: Thoughts on High Culture: Opening Night at the Ballet

• “Rhinopithecus strykeri is a patronym honouring Jon Stryker, founder of the Arcus Foundation, that supports primate conservation and funded the species survey that resulted in the discovery of the species.”

  The Guardian: New to Nature No 61: Rhinopithecus strykeri

• “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.””

  Yokheved Bat-Miriam (Zhelezhniak).

• “Then, if ale0nas is a patronym, the translation of the Bonfantes cannot be right.”

  Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna

• “Hans: Then, if ale0nas is a patronym, the translation of the Bonfantes cannot be right.”

  Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna

• “Aleθnas is marked in the genitive to mark it as a patronym from the father's line.”

  Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna

• “Clynes theory of emotional “quarks” which comprise the atoms and molecules of our inner life is an intellectual license to rescind the historical construct of the person and replace it with something as beautiful and soulless as a downdraft whipping a lake surface into a frenzy … a phenomena without a patronym, or honor.”

  Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Steve Mann on Cyborg Communities: Comments Wanted

• “He told me that Iceland maintained two phone directories: A small one for people with family names, arranged alphabetically by surname, and a main directory for traditional patronyms, alphabetically by given name, and then broken down by patronym.”

  languagehat.com: NUMBER SYSTEMS.

• “One had a traditional patronym (his name was Sigurðer Flossison, his father was Flossi Sigurðerson, and so they went for generations); the other had a "family name" (Borg).”

  languagehat.com: NUMBER SYSTEMS.

• “I asked Oskar why he had a family name rather than a patronym, and he said that a great-grandfather had emigrated to France and started a business under the name Borg, which then became a family name when they returned to Iceland.”

  languagehat.com: NUMBER SYSTEMS.

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