Where does “Петрович” come from?

Петрович (Russian) comes from Russian -о́вич, from Ukrainian -ов, from Russian -о́в, from Old East Slavic -овъ, from Proto-Slavic -ovъ — of, belonging to.

Ancestry of “Петрович”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Russian	-о́вич	A masculine patronymic suffix added to a given name ending in a hard (unpalatalized) consonant: son of
2	Ukrainian	-ов	—
3	Russian	-о́в	Genitive plural desinence of most hard-stem masculine nouns
4	Old East Slavic	-овъ	—
5	Proto-Slavic	-ovъ	of, belonging to

Words derived from “Петрович”

彼得羅維奇

Every word from Proto-Slavic -ovъ →Every word from Russian -о́в →Every word from Russian -о́вич →