matronymic
Americanadjective
adjective
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The answer was to give a person a family name, which could be derived from patronymics and matronymics - names based on a father or mother's name.
From BBC
It will also allow the use of traditional patronymic and matronymic names used by the Frisian minority, which entail children’s surnames being based on their father’s or mother’s first name.
From Seattle Times
But citizens over the age of 18 can choose to swap the patronymic for a matronymic based on the name of the mother.
From Reuters
The name Abraham he received from his grandfather, but it was early dropped, and he was always known by his matronymic Albert.
From Project Gutenberg
Wherefore she has gotten her name in the good books of the sociological philosophers who uphold the matronymic theory touching early society.
From Project Gutenberg
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