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Originally Posted by Hohenheim
What about the ending -ica (itsa) ? My surename ends like this. Is it just a diminutive found in a small number of names, or a well known suffix?
Does anybody know?
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Most likely, it is a diminutive normally used for non-personal nouns (animals and objects alike), which is why it is rarer than the forms like -czyk, -ček, -ek, etc.
Being derived from a non-personal noun, it must mean the ancestor from which you have your last name has been known in connection with something other than his personal traits or proffession, like something he owned, animals he bred/hunted, ...