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He wasn't disobeying.....
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23/08/2005 13:43:57
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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22/08/2005 21:30:03
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Politics
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International
Miscellaneous
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Message ID:
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>>In Slavic languages, -ov is equal to 's in English (i.e. it's a posessive suffix), so Petrov means Peter's (son, probably, because of the male gender - -ova would be feminine). -ich is usually a diminutive suffix, denoting a smaller version of something (novac - money; novčić - tiny coin) or offspring (orao - eagle, orlić - eagle-ling). So basically all Slavic last names ending in -ov, -ich or an -ovich combination mean either "son of" or "further offspring of".
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>So that means my last name (originally Popov) means I'm the son of my Pop? that works out pretty nicely.

"Pop" means "priest". So... you had a priest somewhere in your lineage.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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