Usage
Until advent of Portuguese Daivajnas used titles such as Shet, Sheti, Sethi etc. after their first names. e.g. Virupa Chattim, Gana Sethi etc. Father's name was used as a middle name. Daivajna diaspora started using village names after their first names to distinguish themselves from other communities.Daivajna people still in Goa still use to continue it as a honorific title.Due to various socio-economic reasons Daivajna people migrated from Goa to other places, Daivajna people after migrating from Goa started using Shet as their surname jus to distinguish themselves from others (especially in South Canara, Udupi, Shimoga, some parts of North Canara and Kerala. Few Daivajna families who converted to Catholicism migrated to Mangalore due to attacks by the Marathas in Goa during the late 17th and early 18th century. These families still use the title Śeṭ. The Saldanha-Shet family is one of the well known Konkani Catholic families from Mangalore.
Romanised versions found during the colonial period include Chatim,Xete,Xetim,Xatim,Chati etc.
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