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  2. Category:Russian-language surnames - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Russian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,342 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  3. Slavic name suffixes - Wikipedia

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    All mean "descendant of Peter". This is similar to the use of "-son" or "-sen" in Germanic languages. In East Slavic languages (Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian) the same system of name suffixes can be used to express several meanings. One of the most common is the patronymic.

  4. List of Russian-language euphemisms for dying - Wikipedia

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    However philologist from the Moscow State University Olga Kukushkina [4] by analyzing the poem in detail and the meanings of the verb "to respect", contests this statement and suggests that the expression was used in the direct meaning of paying an attention to a terminally ill person, to whom otherwise Onegin was indifferent.

  5. Slavic names - Wikipedia

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    Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries.. The main types of Slavic names: . Two-base names, often ending in mir/měr (Ostromir/měr, Tihomir/měr, Němir/měr), *voldъ (Vsevolod, Rogvolod), *pъlkъ (Svetopolk, Yaropolk), *slavъ (Vladislav, Dobroslav, Vseslav) and their derivatives (Dobrynya, Tishila, Ratisha, Putyata, etc.)

  6. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    Some surnames in those languages have been russified since the 19th century: the surname of Kazakh former president Nursultan Nazarbayev has a Russian "-yev" suffix, which literally means "of Nazar-bay" (in which "bay" is a Turkic native noble rank: compare Turkish "bey", Uzbek "boy" "bek", and Kyrghyz "bek"). The frequency of such ...

  7. Category:Slavic-language surnames - Wikipedia

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    This category is for surnames originated among Slavic peoples, i.e., peoples who speak Slavic languages. Often the origins of these surnames is difficult to pinpoint, since the three cultures have common origins and heavy mutual influence.

  8. Koshchei - Wikipedia

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    In the Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language of Vladimir Dahl, the name Kashchei is derived from the verb "kastit" – to harm, to dirty: "probably from the word "kastit", but remade into koshchei, from 'bone', meaning a man exhausted by excessive thinness".

  9. Category:Surnames of Russian origin - Wikipedia

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    Russian-language surnames (1 C, 2,323 P) S. Surnames of Caucasian origin (3 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Russian origin" The following 49 pages are in this ...