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  2. Suffix (name) - Wikipedia

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    A name suffix in the Western English-language naming tradition, follows a person's surname (last name) and provides additional information about the person. Post-nominal letters indicate that the individual holds a position, educational degree, accreditation, office, or honor (e.g. "PhD", "CCNA", "OBE"). Other examples include generational ...

  3. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    -wala, -wallah, wali, vala, vali (Hindustani, Gujarati, Bengali, Marathi) denotes the occupation or place of origin (Occupation example: Batliwala – one who deals with bottles. Place example: Suratwala – one from Surat) [citation needed]-wan (Indonesian) denotes a male name [citation needed]-wati (Indonesian) denotes a female name [citation ...

  4. List of commonly used taxonomic affixes - Wikipedia

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    a-, an-: Pronunciation: /ə/, /a/, /ən/, /an/.Origin: Ancient Greek: ἀ-, ἀν-(a, an-). Meaning: a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the ...

  5. Surnames by country - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary patronymics, however, have a substantive suffix -ich for masculine and the adjective suffix -na for feminine. For example, the proverbial triad of most common Russian surnames follows: Ivanov (son of Ivan), Petrov (son of Peter), Sidorov (son of Sidor). Feminine forms of these surnames have the ending -a: Ivanova (daughter of Ivan),

  6. Breton grammar - Wikipedia

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    Nouns may exist in as many as four numbers: collective / singulative (see below) or singular / plural.Most plural forms are formed with the addition of a suffix, often -ed for animate nouns and -(i)où for inanimates, for example, Breton "Breton" to Bretoned "Bretons", levr "book" to levroù, although some nouns referring to people take -où, such as test "witness" becoming testoù.

  7. Naming in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [2] [page needed] By the 1970s and 1980s, it had become common within the culture to invent new names, although many of the invented names took elements from popular existing names. Prefixes such as La/Le, Da/De, Ra/Re, or Ja/Je and suffixes such as -ique/iqua, -isha, and -aun/-awn are common, as well as inventive spellings for common names.

  8. NA/UN exceptions - Wikipedia

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    NA/UN NA name UN name UN/NA 0027: Black powder for small arms: Black powder or Gunpowder, granular or as a meal UN/NA 1057: Lighters, non-pressurized, containing flammable liquid: Lighters containing flammable gas UN/NA 1325: Fusee (railway or highway) Flammable solid, organic, n.o.s. UN/NA 1365: Cotton: Cotton, wet UN/NA 1556: Methyldichloroarsine

  9. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies) - Wikipedia

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    A suffix, such as Company, International, or Group, that is an integral part of the company name (as determined by usage in independent reliable sources) should be included, especially when necessary for disambiguation or when it is part of the company's acronym/initialism, e.g.: Louis Dreyfus Company, JBS Foods International (JBSI), and Mirage ...