Armenian surnames explained #armenian #language #history #culture #historyfacts #armenia #kardashian

[peachespulaski]

Wait wait wait. So you mean to tell me that Cher has a last name?

[crystal.castles]

In Greek, our surnames end in -idis and adis which also means the son of someone and for women it's -idou and -adou❤

[noemiemi]

From the linguistic perspective, it’s very interesting to me how, across the board, humanity in different places and times of history pretty much came up with the same general kinds of surnames: family ties, filial descent, occupation or phisical quirks. I like to remind myself of that when I risk slipping into thinking less of a different ethnic or national/linguistic group than mine ❤️

[YAWSSSSSS]

I love learning more about Armenia's culture, I'm Iranian so there are a few similarities since Armenia shares a boarder with the north of Iran. Armenians have a very rich and underrated culture that isn't talked about enough, so thank you for videos like these 🫶

[florida.florian]

A fun game I like to play is “spot the Armenian” whenever film or tv credits play and I look for people whose last names end with -ian, but sometimes they end up not being Armenian but that’s pretty rare

[shaunathornton]

I did not know Cher was Armenian. I do love her though.

[Hositrugun]

Same thing with Scottish and Irish surnames, with the prefix Mc/Mac. MacManus = son of Magnus, McGowan = Smith's son, MacKenzie = Son of the white haired guy, etc.

[Sunnyakauser-tsvjzpk]

Yea, Bagratuni, Arcruni, Arshakuni etc.
It's great to see armenian culture on youtube, and it's talked about by nit armenian or russian, but romani!
Our cultures are underrated, seding love to all of us❤

[khiarastales]

System of a Down's Serj Tankian too!

(and the other members too actually)

[chloescreations]

Reminds me of Icelandic! In Icelandic (and other Scandi countries too, though most prevalent, from what I remember, in Iceland) there is are two common suffixes in surnames, -son (“son”) and -dottir (“daughter”).

So the surname “Magnusson” would literally be “son of Magnus”, and a “Hermansdottir” would be “daughter of Herman”! :DD

Edit: -son, not -sson 😅

[EthisProtogen]

Shoulda mentioned Tankian too, Serj Tankian is the lead singer of System of a Down

[Fijkast]

In Russian most surnames end with either ‘ov’/‘ev’ or ‘in’/‘en’. Generally they derive from the occupation of an ancestor in the past or a name of an ancestor. Like, one of the most popular surnames in Russia is Ivanov - son of Ivan (pronounced not Ivan but more like Evan actually). Or Kuznetsov would be son of a smith, basically like the surname Smith in English.

[nova]

I never realized that’s what the last names Rodriguez and Gonzales meant despite being surrounded by people with them. You really learn something new everyday 😯.

[ruthhorn]

It is the same in Ireland. We have "Fitz" which gives us Fitzgerald (son of gerald) and "Mac" which gives us any of the names starting with "Mac". "Mac" means son in irish gaelic, but I'm not sure if "Fitz" is originally Irish or if it came over with the Normans.

[SN-vnwb]

This is one of the best educational shorts I've seen in a while. Thank you so much!

[mirandabee]

-son, -ez, -ian, Mc-, O', ibn... at the end of the day a bunch of us are surnamed for people we're related to

[fatimascrying]

this is so interesting and cool to learn, thank you!! I'm half arab and we have a similar concept for last names, at least where my family is from (tunisia). my dad's last name used to be Ben Hedi, which basically means "son of Hedi", his father. I love learning about other languages and cultures and seeing the similarities as well as differences!!

[hirenoor]

Sindhi people have the suffix ‘ani ‘
To mean descending from a man, for example Mukesh Ambani, is descended from a male in his line who had the name Amba or smthng similar.

[lilith]

Hey, thank you for speaking about our last names. ☺️ I am Armenian woman and my last name is Beglarian. You got it right.

[margheritanogara]

There's also the suffix -ic in slavic languages that means the same thing