Why do so many lastnames end in SKY???

Answer 1

-sky (or -skiy, tskiy) is a suffix of a number of Slavic languages, which means adjective made from an appropriate none. E.g. Rus (Russia, old word) - russkiy (Russian); Slovenia - slovenskiy; Riga - rizhskiy, etc. Vasilyev (family name) - vasilyevsky ("of Vasilyev")

It was used to create family names, which originated from location, profession and other things.

Such names spread in USA with immigration from countries with Slavic languages (Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Chechs, Slovakia, Slovenia, ex-Yougoslavia, etc.). Some people of non-Slavic lorigin have such suffixes in their names because of the influence of occupations or migration, e.g. Baltic countries were under tsarist Russia when first passports were introduced with Russians working in offices. A number of Yiddish speakers who fled from nazi regime had such names too, because Jews communities were quite big in the above mentioned countries of the Central and Eastern Europe.

Answer 2

Sky/ski is a popural ending in Russia, Bulgaria, Poland, Serbia, Ukraine, Macedonia, and other Slavic countries.
Also, a person with ov/off-ev/eff (for women -ova/-eva) ending is always from Slavic descent.-Off is simply a misspelled form of
-ov.

Answer 3

Because they are the last names of the families of many Polish and Russian immigrants who consitute a large part of the American population (and of course the Polish and Russian population, but I think you meant the Americans with "sky" in their names)

Answer 4

This is home to the 7 tribes. There is as many clouds as there are Smiths. Indians once inhabited this land and it was tradition to name there children after nature. Cloud, sky and fox, wolf, little dove and running deer. That was there fathers name and so it became there last name.

Answer 5

Because,, most of them are Polish.....Polanski, for instance...... Its a Polish name... And the Polish were made fun of so much in the "70"s as if they're a "Stupid" nationality!! I think thats sad, because, I have Polish in me...and my great-grandma was a very intelligent woman, and so was her son, my grandpa, who had 5 daughters, and died of a heart-attack, at 47, on his porch, from working three jobs, to support his family!! He was a hard-working man!! To this day I have the Utmost respect, for his dear sweet soul.....He looked just like a young Robert Redford, when he died, too!!! Smile!!!

Answer 6

Because there are a lot of people from other countries that have ski and sky in their last names. The ski's are mainly polish/slavic

Answer 7

Slavic lanugages (Polish, Serbian, Czech, Slovak, Russian, and assorted other languages) use forms similar to -ski, -sky, -ov, -owski, -vich, and -ek to mean son of. Examples are "Michalowki" (Polish - son of Michael) and "Romanov" (Russian - son of Roman).

Answer 8

pollocks (:
lmao. i really didnt realize that, till i saw your question.
about 50 years ago, lots of people migrated from those countries like polland and russia, and the baltic countries and everything fleeing the war, so many of them came to the USA. therefore making -sky, a common ending for last names (:

Answer 9

GENERALLY....because they are polish...(ski, sky)....
last names can tell the origin of ethnicity...

vich...is USUALLY yugoslavian area
ous....USUALLY greek
beginning with Van---......USUALLY dutch....
beginning with La--- USUALLY french or french canadian
beginning with Mc----USUALLY irish...and so on!

then you have the heintz 57 people (myself included)....smith jones...johnson....hard calls.......OHH...sorry in advance if i offended ANYONE, or am not exactly correct!...hence the USUALLY!!!...lol....

Answer 10

lol i know that weird i guess alot people have that last nite lol