2026-07-11 18:58 UTC
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@quagga@mastodon.ie 2026-07-11 19:20
@RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo any gaeilgeoirí amongst the #mastodaoine with any insights for gender neutral surname prefixes?
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@liliedubh@medievalist.masto.host 2026-07-11 22:02
@RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo Far as we know as an amateur onomast specializing in Gaelic names, there's never been an option to drop the gendered markers for any sort of matronymic or patronymic in Gaelic. The only type of last name that isn't gendered is a descriptive, and that's what we tell people who don't want gender in their names.
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@Barbara_Sliwinska@mastodon.social 2026-07-12 05:48
@RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo @silmeth@mstdn.social ?...
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@headword@lingo.lol 2026-07-12 11:55
@RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo I know nothing of Irish / Gaeilge, but I know that Icelandic has added -bur as a gender inclusive suffix, alongside the gendered -son and -dóttir (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-bur). This was based on a poetic word for ‘child’. Could something similar work in Irish? I see that a child can be called ‘páiste’, but I don't know if that will be too long or too contrived for comfort ...
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@Moss@beige.party 2026-07-13 15:44
@RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo maybe time to invent neoprefixes! X’ or E’?