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It did make me smiling.

You, smiling maker, you.

Wow! That's strange. Why add another -ova when it already has this ending? :o[/quote]

I do not know why.... :([/quote]

Maybe to show it's foreign?

Thanks. I thought as much since only Russian and Belarussian have them, so it was likely they developed later.

In Ukrainian they tend to be only found in archaic texts or in poetry and sounds (to...

-ов(а) is a Russian ending for a name. Although there are lots of people in Ukraine with such names, they are not Ukrainian in origin.

In Polish names end in

-ski

See in Russian and Belarussian the standard endings for adjectives are long, like doubled:

новый
новая
новое
новые

No, in English we usually write -ский and just -sky or -ski

Kozlowski is a Polish name.

Ski is a Slavic ending. Lithuanian is not Slavic.

Russian names don't tend to end in -ski. The ones that do are often of Polish origin. Lots, maybe most POlish...

Your surname sounds Polish.