Matronymic vs Kimber - What's the difference?
matronymic | kimber |
Of, relating to, or derived from the given name of one's mother or a female ancestor.
A surname or byname acquired from the given name of one's mother's or from a female ancestor's given name.
of modern usage, transferred back from the surname.
* 1990 , The Scions of Shannara , Ballantine Books 1990, page 14:
As an adjective matronymic
is of, relating to, or derived from the given name of one's mother or a female ancestor.As a noun matronymic
is a surname or byname acquired from the given name of one's mother's or from a female ancestor's given name.As a proper noun Kimber is
{{surname|matronymic|from=given names}.matronymic
English
Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* (from the given name of a mother) metronymicNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (surname from a mother) matronym, metronym, metronymicCoordinate terms
* patronym, patronymicSee also
* family name * first name * given name * surnamekimber
English
Alternative forms
* KymberProper noun
(en proper noun)- When Brin Ohmsford had come into Darklin Reach three hundred years earlier, Hearthstone had been the home of Cogline and the child he claimed as his granddaughter, Kimber Boh.