-vitz

German

Etymology

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From a Slavic suffix meaning "son of", such as Belarusian -віч (-vič, “-vich”), Russian -вич (-vič, “-vich”), Serbo-Croatian -vić, Slovene -vič, or Ukrainian -вич (-vyč, “-vych”), all from Proto-Slavic *-vъ + *-iťь.

Suffix

-vitz

1. A surname suffix

See also

• -witz