OT - chuk

What is up with the suffix "chuk"? Where's it from? Russia?

Achtymichuk
Andreychuk
Bolonchuk
Boychuk
Diachuk
Hawerchuk
Hordichuk
Kindrachuk
Konowalchuk
Lupaschuk
Malarchuk
Matvichuk
Oleschuk
Ratchuk
Sawchuk
Semchuk
Shewchuk
Shuchuk
Sobchuk
Tkachuk
Yaremchuk

A brief scan of the NHL all time roster turned this up. I ignored the random foreign chuks.

Friday night drunkaments?

LOL this is my ancestry. "Chuk" or "Czuk" is of Ukrainian origin. Lots of Poles and Ukrainians have this in their surnames. Before the 19th century Ukrainians were called Rusyns. :D;)

How much wood would Dave Anderchuck chuck if Dave Anderchuck could chuck wood?

Existential chuk moment.

It's a Polish/Ukrainian ending, originally spelled -czuk. Loosely translated, it stands for "son of". I will spare you the trouble of the obvious "Biatchuk". :D Kovalchuk I think translates to a son of a blacksmith, etc.

So it's like the American "son" ending.

Johnson, Jackson etc...

So it's polish/russian ish.