18-05-2020, 05:55 AM
(17-05-2020, 11:11 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Correct me if I am wrong, but the "ich" name ending seems to be associated with slavic origins.
My understanding is that this ending is used for patronymics (“son of...”) among the Slavic peoples, and is cognate with English “-ish”, French “-esque”, German “-isch”. Anyone here who speaks Polish will have to verify this, but I believe the surname Wojnicz means roughly “son of war”.
Interestingly, there might very well be no one in the US today surnamed Voynich. This spelling was his creation, he did not immigrate with any blood relatives, and he and Ethel had no children. Polish names often got mangled or Anglicized (or manglicized) on arrival to the US. I have seen a couple of names that struck me as possibly connected to Voynich way way back, including two people family surnamed Warson. There was never a good opportunity to ask any of these folks about their genealogy, though.