Editing Patronymic (section)

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In [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], patronyms were traditionally formed with the ending ''-fi'' (sometimes spelled as ''-fy'' or ''-ffy''). That system is no longer in common use, but traces can still be found in some frequent current surnames such as ''Pálfi'' (son of Paul), ''Győrfi'', ''Bánfi'' or [[Sándor Petőfi]] (a famous poet who chose the Hungarian form instead of his Slavic birth name, ''Petrovics''). In the Old Hungarian period (10th–16th century, see [[History of Hungarian]]), surnames were not in common use, and the full genitive was represented as in ''Péter fia András'' (''Peter's son Andrew''). Such forms are in frequent use in charters and legal documents from that time. In Hungarian, the surname precedes the given name.