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Where does “-wicz” come from?

-wicz (Polish) comes from Polish -wic, from Russian -вич, from Serbo-Croatian -vić, from Slovene -vič.

-wicz (Polish): A surname suffix

Definitions

  1. A surname suffix

Ancestry of “-wicz”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polish-wic—
2Russian-вичA surname suffix
3Serbo-Croatian-vić—
4Slovene-vič—

Words derived from “-wicz”

  • -witz
  • Dawidowicz
  • Józefowicz
  • Kochanowicz
  • Krótkiewicz
  • Okuniewicz
  • Radkiewicz
  • Pawłowicz
  • Wołowicz
  • Prokopowicz
  • Lechowicz
  • Antoniewicz
  • Wiktorowicz
  • Jakubowicz
  • Tomaszewicz
  • Słowakiewicz
  • Słodkiewicz
  • Solarewicz
  • Bykowicz
  • Rutkiewicz
  • Orłowicz
  • Stefanowicz
  • Książkiewicz
  • Romanowicz
Every word from Slovene -vič →