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296 The Proto-Lndo-European LexiCOnnamen und Kurznamen bzw. Kosenamen im Indogermanischen" ibid. p.419ff.3) Further, the syntactical indication of the father's name also dates fromProto-lndo-European, whether by adding the name of the futher in the genitive,in the sense of 'son of X,' or by adding a possessive adjective that is derivedfrom the name of the futher. An example of the former is HadubrandHeribrandes suno; an example of the latter is Myc. Gr. a-re-ku-tu-ru-woe-te-wo-ke-re-we-i-jo i.e. Alekiruljon Eteljokleyehijos 'Alektruyon, son ofEteyokleyes' and Russ. Nikolaj Sergejevic. - Patronymics ending in -ios(later -ius) led to what is called the nomine gentile in Rome, compare Gaiuslulius Caesar with Gaius = praenomen < individual name, IlIlills = nomengentile < patronymic and Caesar = cognomen. The first step towards thesystem that is widespread in all of Middle Italy is the transferral to each personof the patronymic from the futher. For more comprehensive information: Rix Gentilnamensystem 1972 passim (For information on suffix functions inProto-Indo-European, p. 71.). - For information on Greek patronymics: Meier-Briigger Gr. Sprachw. Il p. 21 (in section 3 below).4) When considering the giving of names to individuals, one departs generallyfrom the basis of the free male. Individual names of women have theirown special issues and are directly related to the role of women in Indo­European society, as is shown in forms of address. Whereas the man is addressedusing the individual name, a simple 'oh woman' suffices in the case ofthe woman. "The woman is treated more as a typus, the man as an individual": J. Wackemagel "Uber einige antike Anredeformen" in WackernagelKIeine Schrifien Il 1969 (in an essay of 1912) p. 970ff. and particularly p. 993(Wackemagel makes clear that the same forms of address were adopted forinteractions with the gods. To say that the [ndo-Europeans were not verydifferent from the Romans and Greeks would not likely be too far from themark). - In Rome, women generally carried only the nomen gentile, cf.Cornelia, IlIlia etc.: Rix Gentilnamensystem 1972 p. 704. - In the caseof the Greeks, most names of women are simply feminine forms of masculinenames of individuals, e.g. (already) Myc. a-re-ko-sa-da-ra, i.e. Aleksandrii(which corresponds to *Aleks-anor, meaning 'who fights off men'), Hom'AvOpo!'