Re:The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin
by norwegianwhale on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:16AM
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I am Icelander and I grew up in a fishing town near Reykjavik. When I was a small child, my greatgranddad was still alive and my mother would call him aitona. Later I learned that it was a basque word and that he came from a basque family. Small world indeed!
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Cool story! How did your greatgranddad's son & daughter's last name look like? I understand they are formed adding -son and -dotir to the father's first name, would be interesting if it's a Basque name (Iñakison? Aitordotir?).
> Iñakison? Aitordotir?
I'm glad I already finished my beer, otherwise I would have spilled it over my keyboard xD (I'm Spanish too, from Cáceres)
Re:The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin
by lastofthemojito on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:32AM
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Iceland has a governmental naming committee [0] that maintains a list of approved names. As I understand, obtaining exceptions has become easier, and in acknowledgement of non-binary people, there are no longer separate male and female name lists. But it's likely that in the time of OP's great-grandfather, he was given a very traditional Icelandic name (at least as his legal name).