Grouping of gendered Surname inflections

[emyoulation]

On the Gramps subreddit, a user asks about grouping slavic surnames that vary based on gender. Whether it can be made more automatic when:

1. inflecting when adding a person, and/or
2. grouping when expanding a set of surnames to include a gendered variant

In onomastics (the study of names), this pattern is described as inflecting surnames for grammatical gender, often by adding or changing suffixes like -ov/-ova, -ski/-ska, etc. Sometimes descriptively referred to as “gendered surnames” or “gender-specific surnames,”; although “surname inflection” is the concise technical label for the phenomenon

e.g., Think of the Ukrainian President: he is Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his wife is Olena Zelenska

Maybe a wildcard Surname grouping view mode in the People category? One that subsorts on given name, then birth date? (e.g., Zelensk* or use a RegEx pattern like ^(.{5}) to group names with the same 1st five characters. )
Similarly, perhaps a “phoneme” grouping view mode using Soundex … or better yet for international names, Double Metaphone. (e.g., Zelenskyy and a share a Metaphone primary key TLSNSK but vary on the Double Metaphone secondary key: SLNSKY versus SLNSK . They are both Z452 in SoundEx)

Related:

• 10656: Allow sorting on multiple columns in various menus
• 04468: Support phonex
• 01768: improve soundex tool. Integrate better with gramps

[DaveSch]

Using the surname Group As option, Zelenskyy and Zelenska can be grouped together. When grouping, there is the option to change an individual record or Group All records with the same surname. This will be automatically applied to new records.

I would use the same Group As option for both surname entries. Using a paternal bias I would probably use Zelenskyy (Zelenska). Another option could be Zelensk (Zelenskyy, Zelenska).