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Message: <blockquote data-quote="janvanderbrugge" data-source="post: 3492991" data-attributes="member: 137246">Well, Laurent, this is a personal feeling, of course, but I would treat a name hedwigii dedicated to a woman, with serious doubts as to the linguistic capacities of the authors in question. In this maybe "narrow" view my confidence in the remainder of their publication gets damaged somehow, like the work of someone who shows that he is not able to compose a text of some level, is anyhow damaging his reputation. (Not his qualities as a person, and I am not referring to email or newspaper messages, of course, but to a scientific publication which will be distributed at a corresponding level, and sometimes might lead to promotion). Well, you offered me my fourth case. By the way, I wonder about any comment from the dedicated woman when "crookedly" honoured.About the genitive endings: I have always "cherished the thought", that the origin of the ending -ai was in the latinization of a family or person's name to -us, like Nicolai from Nicolaus. I realise that birulai and kurodai are never printed in a nominative latinized form Birulaus and Kurodaus, but I imagined that such versions could be seen as starting point for the genitive. Then susanii from Susanius would be logic. You know, I suppose, that Dutch names in some periods of the history were latinized, like Jansenius (from Jansen), Heinsius (Heins) or Jongerius (from Jongere). Possibly I have always unjustly combined such phenomena in order to explain some queer things in nomenclature.Regards,Jan van der Brugge</blockquote>

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