[NetStrikeForce]

Funnily enough, this is more widespread than one would think. I didn't know about the Turkish example.

In Spanish, all the surnames ending in -ez also mean "son of". Even many Spanish speaking people don't know (or don't care? :)) about it, as they've been used as "normal" (sorry) surnames for long now.

Lopez: Son of Lope Rodriguez: Son of Rodrigo Perez: Son of Pedro Martínez: Son of Martín etc

[magic_beans]

I had no idea!! Was there ever a "daughter of" convention?

I love when etymology pops up in random threads :)

[NetStrikeForce]

Actually, when I said "son of" in my head I was using the gender neutral "hijo", so it applies actually to sons and daughters :-)