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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by Netcob on Monday February 10, 2025 @06:09PM (#43006479)
Here in Germany, you often come across surnames that end in "-ski", which I assume come from Poland. That is also an example of getting "stuck" with a specific version of a name: in Poland, that ending would indicate that the person is male, while "-ska" would be female, and there's even one when referring to the family that shares that name: "-scy".

So whenever I meet a woman with a "-ski"-name, I wonder how many generations ago that name got stuck with just the male form.

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