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From Filkin (“a medieval diminutive of Philip”) + -s (“genitive (mainly patronymic) suffix”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A surname transferred from the given name. Full definition →
From Filkin (“a medieval diminutive of Philip”) + -s (“genitive (mainly patronymic) suffix”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.