Re: Harry Kasparov? [was: Re: for my wife and I]

Woody Wordpecker wrote:
> On 02 Dec 2003 02:44:05 GMT, CeeBee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
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>> [in a discussion of Garry Kasparov's name history.]
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> <some material omitted>
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>> Probably under pressure of the USSR Ministry of Sports his name was
>>  changed from Harri Weinstein to Harri Kasparov, after his father
>> Kim Weinstein was killed in a car crash. His mother is Klara
>> Kasparov(a). Kasparova is the "female" version of the name
>> Kasparov.
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> And the "-ov" suffix looks like way back it could have been a
> genitive declension of "Kaspar".  "Kasparov" could have meant
> something like "belonging to Caspar".

It is. That is why it is just about the most common suffix for Russian
surnames. The 'ski' suffix is a way of making adjectives out of nouns 
and is another fairly common surname ending.

--
Rob Bannister