From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 29155 Date: 2004-01-06
06-01-04 14:11, Joao wrote:
> In the name of Lenin - Vladimir Illich Ulyanov - what's the patronymic?
> Illich?
> Is it a patronymic of Ilia?
Yes. The ending is <-ic^> < *-itjI. But the actual form is Ilyich
(<Il'jic^>, from Ilya <Il'ja>), not "Illich", which is a bourgeois
deformation of Lenin's middle name :-).