Tagged: indo-european

In most of the Indo-European languages that have gender in nouns, we notice that personal names also follow specific gender rules. In the previous article “Why most European names ending in A are female“, I tried to analyse and explain...

Throughout the Western world, European civilization has dominated the naming customs ever since the Ancient times. Greek names were en vogue during the Hellenistic period, Roman names in late Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages, when the now...