To honor him, I have taken his name as my patronym. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
Then, if ale0nas is a patronym, the translation of the Bonfantes cannot be right. From Wordnik.com. [Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna] Reference
Aleθnas is marked in the genitive to mark it as a patronym from the father's line. From Wordnik.com. [Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna] Reference
Hans: Then, if ale0nas is a patronym, the translation of the Bonfantes cannot be right. From Wordnik.com. [Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna] Reference
He had broken it and it had given him the Lady's patronym, a name common in pre-Domination histories. From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose]
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). From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: NUMBER SYSTEMS.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: NUMBER SYSTEMS.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: NUMBER SYSTEMS.] Reference
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.”. From Wordnik.com. [Yokheved Bat-Miriam (Zhelezhniak).] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Steve Mann on Cyborg Communities: Comments Wanted] Reference
A very common type of name is the patronym, named in honor of some person. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1] Reference
Only a few noble families, especially in the islands, took the Catalan patronym. From Wordnik.com. [Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel] Reference
He ate in the Lotus and of its patronym, and was lulled into blissful peace with the other fortunate mariners. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference
I assumed the name, Simpson, with some reluctance, as in my true patronym, Froissart, I felt a very pardonable pride -- believing that. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3] Reference
She's not "Ms Sigurdardottir" - that sixth letter is an eth (ð) not a "d", and "Sigurðardóttir" is not a surname anyway, but her patronym. From Wordnik.com. [بالاترین] Reference
On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War the family divided, the Loyalists changing their patronym to Secord by placing the prefix "d" at the end of their name. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems.] Reference
"Abu Mazen's term ended long ago," says Dweik in a conversation in his home in the West Bank city of Hebron, referring to the embattled Palestinian president by his patronym. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] Reference
Curiously enough his name, hitherto hastily assumed to be equivalent to Elias of Durham, has probably no connection with that city; whether, however, his patronym should be traced to the Norfolk. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum] Reference
I assumed the name, Simpson, with some reluctance, as in my true patronym, Froissart, I felt a very pardonable pride -- believing that I could trace a descent from the immortal author of the Chronicles. From Wordnik.com. [The Spectacles] Reference
Without questioning that such it might be, -- for the Dutch scribes were gifted in remarkable distortions of simple names, even of their own people, -- they evidently had no hand in thus maltreating the patronym of William Mullens (or Mullins) of the Pilgrims, for not only is evidence entirely wanting to show that he was ever a Leyden citizen, though made such by the fertile fiction of Mrs. Austin, but Governor. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference
103 Aeetes is the patronym of the kings of Colchis from mythical times onwards; e.g. Medea was the daughter of Aeetes. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
Narayan was a patronym. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams of Steel]
Tran is a common patronym in Hsien. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
10:32 am jonathan : the french patronym of Big Ears is Jojo Lapin Rabbit Joe. From Wordnik.com. [Wee Oui!] Reference
(5) Aeetes is the patronym of the kings of Colchis from mythical times onwards; e.g. Medea was the daughter of Aeetes. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
His memoir does not mention his patronym. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Species bearing Berlepsch’s patronym include. From Wordnik.com. [Who Was Berlepsch?] Reference
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