Re: [tied] Russian patronymics

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski [mailto:piotr.gasiorowski@...]

> 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 :-).
>

Probably due to contamination with <V'ac^eslav Illic^-Svityc^>, an
outstanding Russian linguist (the first last name's component -- with accent
on the first syllable -- being of South Slavic origin?).

Sergei