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  2. Suffix (name) - Wikipedia

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    Social name suffixes are far more frequently applied to men than to women. [5] A child with a name that varies from a parent's name in middle name only may also be informally known as Jr. (e.g. Francis Wayne Sinatra, son of Francis Albert Sinatra), and his father may be known informally as Sr. (e.g., Paul John Teutul and his son, Paul Michael ...

  3. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    -ell (English spelling for French -el, diminutive) [citation needed]-el (Northern French and Occitan, French -eau) [citation needed]-ema (Suffix of Frisian origin, given by Napoleon Bonaparte who used suffixes like these to keep a record of people's origins within the Netherlands) [citation needed]-ems [citation needed]

  4. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

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    cwm in Welsh and cum in Cumbric; borrowed into old English as suffix coombe. dal [5] SG, I meadow, low-lying area by river Dalry, Dalmellington: prefix Cognate with and probably influenced by P Dol: dale [10] OE/ON valley OE, allotment OE Airedale i.e. valley of the River Aire, Rochdale, Weardale, Nidderdale: suffix Cognate with Tal (Ger ...

  5. Category:Suffixes - Wikipedia

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    For a comprehensive list of suffixes, ... This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. E. ... This page was last edited on 24 June 2021, ...

  6. Surnames by country - Wikipedia

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    Feminine names are usually derived from masculine ones by a suffix -ová (Nováková) or -á for names being originally adjectives (Veselá), sometimes with a little change of original name's ending (Sedláčková from Sedláček or Svobodová from Svoboda). Women usually change their family names when they get married.

  7. Category:English suffixes - Wikipedia

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    For a comprehensive and longer list of English suffixes, see Wiktionary's list of English suffixes. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.

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  9. List of diminutives by language - Wikipedia

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    However, in many cases the names for baby animals are not diminutives—that is, unlike chaton/chat or chiot/chien, they are not derived from the word for the adult animal: poulain, foal (an adult horse is a cheval); agneau, lamb (an adult sheep is un mouton or either une brebis, a female sheep, or un bélier, a male sheep). French is not ...