Re: WHATL calendar for next year (2013)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 17:52 |
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 16:39, caeruleancentaur
<caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> Apropos of patronymics, a friend asked me the etymology of the Greek
> suffix -opoulos on names. I assumed it was a patronymic suffix. Does
> anyone know better?
That's my understanding, too. So e.g. Papadopoulos = son of the priest
(papas, papad- + -opoulos); kotopoulo = "chick; chicken (as meat to
eat)" < kota "hen" + -opoulo (neuter form of -opoulos).
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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