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ArchivesRe: KIRIAKOU and LYRANTONAKIS 's meaning
in reply to a message by Lepic
κυριακός κυριακόν is the obvious origin of Kiriakou, from κύριος, "Lord" with a suffix equivalent to English -y (e.g. rose, rosy). It may possibly be the equivalent of the English surname "Church", but is rarely used in that sense in Greek.
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Kyriakou denotes descent from a man named Kyriakos, a name meaning "belonging to the Lord", i.e., equivalent to the Latin Dominic(us). Surnames ending in -ou are often Cypriot in origin.
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Surnames ending on -os (for the man) are in Greece changed to -ou for the women. So if the man's surname would be Kyriakos, then the surname of his daughter or sister would be Kyriakou.
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However, among Cypriot Greeks -ou is a common surname ending. One might say equivalent to -ides or -opoulos in mainland Greece.
Some examples - Christos Demetriou, Kostas Loizou, Panayiotis Aristidou. The singer George Michael has a Greek Cypriot surname ending in -ou. I forget what it is.
Some examples - Christos Demetriou, Kostas Loizou, Panayiotis Aristidou. The singer George Michael has a Greek Cypriot surname ending in -ou. I forget what it is.
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His full name is Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου). The origin of the surname can be found at tinyurl.com/hf65nr6.
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