• Parent [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Don't they do that in the middle east too? Ali bin Hussein. Ben-Gurion.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Yes, and the same goes for Russian, where you have your father's first name with an -ich suffix as your middle name. The Ilyich in Vladimir Ilyich Lenin just means "son of Ilya"