Greek surnames ending in 'akis'

[Vojnik]

Cretan fighter had sex with some cuman tatar gypsy woman.

Off topic. We are not talking about your grandparents here. Gypsy prosfiga.

[Thanas Django]

Nah. My family had this name imposed on them by the greek church. Before that the ending was 'ov'.

ov is still a Greek surname ending as it is merely Greek genitive transcribed to another Alphabet.

My surname ending is ou which is the Greek equivalent.

[Papastratosels26]

Mostly in Crete

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[Sikeliot]

Not just Crete but also Laconia/Mani and some Cyclades islands have surnames ending in -akis.

[Pausanias]

A Cretan girl told me that the origin of the termination "-akis" originates in the Ottoman occupation, after some revolts by the Cretans, the Turks called -akis in order to humiliate them.

-akis means -little

[Petros Houhoulis]

I've heard people say that people with 'akis' ending surnames have Cretan origins. It's odd because i have family with that ending in their surname. But no connection to Crete.

Any truth to this?

-akis is a diminutive form used by the Muslim Cretans to intimidate the Christian Cretans. It stuck.

[Petros Houhoulis]

Im following this topic. And what about surnames ending with ‘idis’ I match with a few of them in myheritage.

Like this guy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclides_Ponticus

Heraclides Ponticus (Greek: Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικός Herakleides; c. 390 BC – c. 310 BC)^[1] was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who was born in Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey, and migrated to Athens. He is best remembered for proposing that the Earth rotates on its axis, from west to east, once every 24 hours.^[2] He is also hailed as the originator of the heliocentric theory, although this is doubted by some.

You've got some really famous matches in myheritage....

[Mens-Sarda]

-akis is a diminutive form used by the Muslim Cretans to intimidate the Christian Cretans. It stuck.

What about the suffix -ikos? I've seen Greek names like Pavlos -> Pavlikos. Is it a diminutive as well?

In Sardinian language the diminutives use a very similar suffix, probably derived from Greek (Greek language and Byzantine liturgy were used by Sardinian church until the end of XIth century; this may explain the existence of these diminutives in Sardinian language).

Greek :

Pavlos -> Pavlikos

Sardinian :

Paulu -> Paulícu | Paula -> Paulíca
Antóni -> Antonícu | Antonia -> Antoníca
Servadore -> Servadorícu
Bore -> Borícu, Forícu (diminutives of Servadore)
Peppe -> Peppícu (diminutives of Zuseppe = Joseph)

[Rgvgjhvv]

Thread about Greek surname suffixes:

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...rname-Suffixes

[Tauromachos]

Not just Crete but also Laconia/Mani and some Cyclades islands have surnames ending in -akis.

Some Smyrnians also have