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Subject: Slavic endings
Author: Ivayla   (guest, 67.169.147.69)
Date: March 25, 2004 at 7:34:21 PM
Reply to: Re: Cannot find the meaning of my last name by Yannis
-ov/-ev/-ic are the common Slavic endings. The endings -evski/ovski were instituted in Macedonia in the 1940s to help ethnic Macedonians differentiate themselves from Serbs and Bulgarians.

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