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  2. Slavic names - Wikipedia

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    Slavic origin name on the boat Since national revivals during 19th and 20th centuries, traditional names, especially of historical rulers and heroes, regained popularity.

  3. Slavic name suffixes - Wikipedia

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    A Slavic name suffix is a common way of forming patronymics, family names, and pet names in the Slavic languages. Many, if not most, Slavic last names are formed by adding possessive and other suffixes to given names and other words. Most Slavic surnames have suffixes which are found in varying degrees over the different nations.

  4. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    The lower page includes the lines: Фамилия ("Family name"), Имя ("Name") and Отчество ("Patronymic"). Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional way of identifying a person's family name, given name, and patronymic name in East Slavic cultures in Russia and some countries formerly part of the Russian Empire and the ...

  5. Slavs (ethnonym) - Wikipedia

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    The origin of the Slavic autonym *Slověninъ is disputed.. According to Roman Jakobson's opinion, modified by Oleg Trubachev (Трубачёв) [15] and John P. Maher, [16] the name is related to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) root *ḱlew-seen in slovo ("word") and originally denoted "people who speak (the same language)", i.e. people who understand each other, in contrast to the Slavic word ...

  6. 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.

  7. Surnames by country - Wikipedia

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    Given names have many variations, but the most common names have Christian/Greek (e.g. Maria, Ivan, Christo, Peter, Pavel), Slavic (Ognyan, Miroslav, Tihomir) or Protobulgarian (Krum, Asparukh) (pre-Christian) origin. Father's names normally consist of the father's first name and the "-ov" (male) or "-ova" (female) or "-ovi" (plural) suffix.

  8. Slavs - Wikipedia

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    The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, [1] [2] and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...

  9. Sasha (name) - Wikipedia

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    Sasha is a name which originated among Slavic peoples from Eastern and Southern Europe [citation needed] as the shortened version of Alexander and Alexandra.It is also used as a surname, although very rarely.