Recently I've stumbled upon Slovak surname
Martinisko which came under my notice due to its uncommon shape and of course it instantly aroused my curiosity about the import of *-īsko formant in it. Keeping it serves for substantives to currently convey place-hearth connotation or augmentation of things – in Rousse, namely, *-īskio for the former and *-īsko for the latter, which I could barely tie up to a proper name like
Martin, it's parallelism with *-īskio brought me straight to another Rousse last name
Domiscye. Though not having been sure about the base of
Domiscye heretofore,
Martinisko helped to clearly identify it as anthroponymic. So, the different typology of Slavic family names on *-īsk(i)o put me on burrowing some more instances thereof. Need to say, though some is found, but not much. Noteworthy the *-iskio paradigm distributes almost exclusively within the Carpathia-Galitchina (
Carpatie-Galityina) region, which suggests its indigenous feature to that area. Any sporadic disseminations elsewhere is an exception which proves the rule, yet one seems to distinctly tell in Bealaroussen.
prwzufiscye | zagalyna uimulua | tuoryeno wd imene | xiryeno po/na |
Costiscye | [ko`stɪʂʧɛ] | Costẽ, Costẽntin | Galityiné |
Domiscye | [do`mɪʂʧɛ] | Doma, Dometian, Doment | Carpatii |
Griciscye | [ɰrɨ`ʦɪʂʧɛ] | Gric, Grigwr | Carpatii |
Griniscye | [ɰrɨ`nɪʂʧɛ] | Griny, Grigwr | Galityiné |
Ifaniscye | [ɩβɑ`nɪʂʧɛ] | Ifan | Foluini-Podwlii |
Pafyliscye~Pauliscye | [pɑw`lɪʂʧɛ] | Pafylo~Paulo | Carpatii, Galityiné |
Petriscye | [pe`trɪʂʧɛ] | Petro | Carpatii→Cuiywfysciné→'Foutr'(Oucrayinõ, Dicopwlie)→Bélorousi |
One more probable surname
Pilipiscye (< Pilip) needs firmer evidence for attestation.
Alonside the
Martinisko last name I found only one more with the -īsko formant -
Stephanisko (Czech(-Moraw)-Slovakia) or
Stepanisko (in Roussemark).