Re: [tied] Russian patronymics

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 :-).

Piotr

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