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In a hyphenated name, both parts may have a prefix - these may be different. e.g. van der Sluijs-van Harten.

GEDCOM 5.5.1 (page 54):

NAME_PERSONAL:=
...
If part of name is illegible, that part is indicated by an ellipsis (...).

In GEDCOM7 I do not see this possibility anymore. Maybe I just overlooked it, but in a future name structure it should be possible to enter incomplete/illegible names:

1 NAME Mar(...) /(A...)men(dorf)/
2 TYPE BIRTH
2 GIVN Mar(...)
2 SURN (A...)men(dorf)

If we include diminutive names in the “name” tag to provide personal identity, other name types for “clan”, Asian “generational name”, patronymic and matronymic names, location and descriptive names, titles (both nobility and position) have a place as well.

Saw a discussion regarding patronymics, and it feels like another important concept to keep in mind is that many countries rely on gendered patronymics and surnames.

Below a romanized example:

Father
Vladimir Petkov

Son
Evgenii Vladimirov Petkov

Daughter
Lidia Vlamidirova Petkova

While it would be ok to manually handle their gendered suffix, it would still be important to somehow detect that they all count towards the same family entity

In many slavic countries a patronymic is used (which is based on the father's or grandfather's given name). In Bulgaria, for example, this is included between the given- and the surname as an independent part of the name:

Example: 'Христо Ботйов Петков' (with Ботйов as the Father's name).

However, in the present GEDCOM versions, the patronymic cannot be included as a separate part, but only as a GIVN.

1 NAME Христо Ботйов /Петков/
2 GIVN Христо Ботйов
2 SURN Петков

In the future, it should be possibile to designate name parts individually:

Example:

1 NAME Христо Ботйов /Петков/
2 GIVN Христо
2 PATN Ботйов
2 SURN Петков

or in a more general way, like this:

1 NAME Христо Ботйов /Петков/
2 NAMEPART Христо
3 TYPE GIVN
2 NAMEPART Ботйов
3 TYPE FATHERSNAME
2 NAMEPART Петков
3 TYPE SURN