Re: Anthroponymy (was Re: Re: Laadan)

On Monday 16 December 2002 10:05, John Cowan wrote:
> Isaac A. Penzev scripsit:
> > The only exception is Hungarian anthroponymy
> > with its reversee order. It is easily explained by the fact that
> > in the Hungarian language adjectives _always_ precede nouns they
> > modify, and all Hungarian family names are treated as adjectives"
>
> Long ago I read a science-fiction story about which I remember
> nothing except that:
>
>         1) it was set in a far-future America
>         2) the hero's name was Tankers Jack
>         3) this and other names were of the form "patronymic
> firstname"
>
> Presumably Tankers Jack meant "Tanker's [son] Jack".
The same happens in Sean Stewart's YA fantasy novel Nobody's Son. The
hero is Shielder's Mark, meaning Shielder's [son] Mark. The princess
her marries (not really a spoiler, as the story is about what happens
after the peasant hero defeats the great evil and marries the
princess and expects to live happily ever after) is Ered's Gallant's
Reynold's Ferdinand's Royal's Gail. Which patronyms are kept in the
longer aristocratic names seems to be a matter of familial choice.

-Sylvia

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