of -ovich, et al. Correction

Jules Levin ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET
Sun May 27 05:26:57 UTC 2007


At 10:21 PM 5/26/2007, I wrote:

>4.  If you saw such a form in the hand-written "otchestvo" column of 
>a local late 9th Century provincial tally of some sort, of ethnic 
>non-Russians (Poles, Lithuanians, Jews, all identified as such), 
>would your first assumption be a) actual use of -ov as a genuine 
>patronymic, b) scribal confusion/error, c) other???


Of course I intended to write "19th Century".  sorry
Jules Levin

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