On 15 May 1997 20:04:41 GMT, jrp@enter.net (Chip) wrote: >In article <5lf1m1$gpp@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>, mvirch@bnr.ca writes... >> >> >>Anybody have a clue as to what the surname suffix "chick", >>which I've seen alternately spelled "chek", "chik", "czyk", >>"cek", and possibly even "sk", with perhaps a circumflex over >>the "s"? Does this have a literal meaning? It's an ending >>you see in a lot of Slavic names. >>-- v If you mean somethin like S it's slovak literal to polish sz v for english language show ("sou"for me) or shine. ^^ ^^ v v czyk cz from polish in slovak C child ("cild" = dieta) ^^ Ahoj zo slovenska. Dodo. (Hi from slovakia.)