Re: [tied] (ex-Metius Fufetius) PIE Patronymic

At 4:59:38 PM on Friday, May 11, 2007, Gordon Barlow wrote:

>>Should we consider patronymical use as PIE? Was there a
>>kind of patronymical suffix (-i, -yo, etc.) or just a
>>genitive,something like Zeus son of Kronos = Zeus of
>>Kronos?

> If you mean for common men, tribal or clan surnames are
> more plausible, to me. For a commoner's patronymic to be
> useful as an identifier, the father would have to be well
> known.

Actually, I'd expect the single idionym to be most common;
if bynames are used, I'd expect patronymics to be among the
most common.

Brian