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Re: Dackis
Just wanted to mention that why I looked up Latin names as well as Greek names is because so many of them are derived from Greek and that the languages, though very different, share many of the same roots ...
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There is, or was, a Greek male given name, Didakos, which was based on the word for teach, the source of English words such as didactic. However, as this surname is thought to have been shortened, I'm sticking to my last idea (till that gets shot down).
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