can say all the people interested in their roots, the origins of the family and its history.In connection with global cataclysms that followed the October Revolution, many documents have been lost.And now, its origins can often be found only "philological" - the composition of the generic name, that is, to what the name of the nation to which refers.
suffixes in the names
most "speaking" part of this speech is, without a doubt, the suffix.So, this morpheme, sounding as "to", "eyko", "EHKO" talks about the roots of Ukrainian media names, but "ovsky" or "evsk" equally likely to indicate the origin of both the Ukraine and Poland.With such a suffix to find out what the name of a nation refers to the need with additional features.These belong to the root of the family, which often indicates what language was used in the creation of this particular derivative.
number of words forming the name
Which nation is the surname, you can quite accurately be recognized by the number of words, of which it is composed.For example, carriers Chernokobylka proud names - explicit Slavs, such a composite generic names are characteristic of Poles, Russian, Ukrainians and Belarusians.
Roots "Cohen", "Levi" and the suffix "son", "Bane", "strains" and left no doubt what surname to which nation belongs, they certainly point to the Jewish origin of their ancestors, at least in the post-Soviet space (in the case of particles "dream").
difficulty in determining the origin of the names
But do not put too much trust linguistic research.In Russia there was a mixture of too many people, from whom the family estate were some echoes.What is the name of a nation which is, you can not pinpoint but absolutely clear cases - for example, with the end to "jo".Although there may be mistaken: you say with certainty that in front of you a descendant of the Georgians, and it may well be that an ancestor was the Japanese, who also found in the names of such a particle.
And in fixing the surnames in the old days often attended illiterate people or scribes to unreadable handwriting.So it is quite possible that the carrier had a great-grandfather's surname Levinsky Lovitskogo, which recorded just wrong.
Which nation surname, the most difficult to determine if there are present the suffix "s" or "John".There is a general consensus that such generic names to identify Russian.Moreover, if the root of the word in the Russian language has nothing to do, the family is likely to Tatar or Bashkir.
With clearly by foreign names are often much simpler.Surviving the prefix "de" or "le" says the French origin of the race, German or English as the roots are easily recognizable.
Poles were noted in the pedigrees of the suffix "chik" or "IC", the Armenians - "yang" and "NC", although the name of which ends up on the "uni" is also likely to Armenia.
search for their roots
In particularly difficult cases, wishing to establish their origin have laboriously dig into foreign dictionaries to find out what language belongs to the base (root) of their names.We should not forget about the diversity of peoples in what is now, and even more, pre-revolutionary Russia.Human migration and mixing of peoples and nationalities can greatly confuse and perplex his search results.
