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- noun The
name of someone'smother . - noun A
matronymic surname .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.”
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A matronym on the other hand is said to be marked by the other genitive, -l a gentilicium coming from the mother's side.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009
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A matronym on the other hand is said to be marked by the other genitive, -l a gentilicium coming from the mother's side.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009
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Her first Hebrew poem was published under the matronym “Bat-Hedvah,” Hedvah being a Hebraized form of her mother’s nickname “Freude” (Yaoz-Kest in Anda: Kovez Ma’amarim, 132).
mialuthien commented on the word matronym
See metronym.
July 19, 2008