Did you know this before?

and in japanese, men's names end in 'san' as in daniel-san or miyagi-san!

 

Hey: Don't CALL me dottir.

Not fit to.

 

Nice.

 

Didn't the "Mc" in Irish names originally mean "son of?"

 

In Iceland, the phone book is by first name because there are only so many last names.

Many countries use a patronymic to indicate "son/daughter of."

Most are not gender specific like the Mc- and Mac- of the Scots and the O' of the Irish.

If you are friendly with someone in Russia, you use his first name and his father's name in this fashion: "Alexander Ruslanovich."

 

the 'ova' part signifies the connection to the father or the husband, from what I understand.

it's not just the 'a' it's the 'ova'

because it ain't ova til it's navratilova!

 

And... Iceland is green and Greenland is icy.

 

And "Fitz" in Ireland means "bastard son of" ... So Fitzpatrick at some point long ago was a bastard son of a guy named Patrick. Fitzsimmons, Fitzgerald, Fitzhugh and so on ...