Other Altered and Combined Surnames
Here are other alterations in the Spanish surnames and foreign surnames that are common in Visayan-inhabited areas, especially in Visayas and northern Mindanao:
- Englis (although its "English", they remove the 'H' from it for no reason. But the derivation was of Spanish "Inglés" so some said that they reshuffled the spelling)
- Golis (Spanish, Golez)
- Gomis (Spanish, Gomez)
- Ranis (origin unknown, probably Spanish Ranez)
- Sendaydiego (a combination of Japanese Sendai 仙台 and Spanish Diego)
- Valmorida (a combination from Japanese Morita 森田 and Spanish word "valle" - "valley")
- Wahiman (originally Ojiman/Ohiman. They altered the spelling to separate themselves from their relatives of same name because they are not well-accepted in their clan due to social status.)
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Famous quotes containing the words altered and/or combined:
“We got our new rifled muskets this morning. They are mostly old muskets, many of them used, altered from flint-lock to percussion ... but the power of the gun was fully as great as represented. The ball at one-fourth mile passed through the largest rails; at one-half mile almost the same.... I think it an excellent arm.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“... overconfidence in one’s own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)