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History. [edit] Ancient Greeks generally had a single name, often qualified with a patronymic, a clan or tribe, or a place of origin. Married women were identified by the name of their husbands, not their fathers. Hereditary family names or surnames began to be used by elites in the Byzantine period. Well into the 9th century, they were rare.
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.)
List. Wise One, concealer, "the One who is many". Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss 18, [14] O˛rvar-Odds saga 19ff. [15] Gylfaginning, Grímnismál (54), Óðins nǫfn (4). The root svaf- is an Indo-European cognate to words meaning sleep ( Greek hypnos; Latin sopor, sopio, somnus; etc.) [19] The old Nordic Odin stems from the original name, Vodin ...
Joan (female name: / dʒoʊn /; male name: [ (d)ʒuˈan]) is both a feminine form of the personal name John given to females in the Anglosphere; and the native masculine form of John (for males) in the Catalan - Valencian and Occitan languages. In both cases, the name is derived from the Greek via the Latin Ioannes and Ioanna (or Johannes and ...
28. Karamanlis. “Man from Karamania” is the straightforward meaning of this Greek last name. 29. Simopoulos. “Son of Simon” is what this last name breaks down to mean. 30. Argiros. With a ...
Germanic name. Germanic given names are traditionally dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements, by joining a prefix and a suffix. For example, King Æþelred 's name was derived from æþele, meaning "noble", and ræd, meaning "counsel". However, there are also names dating from an early time which seem to be monothematic ...
The masculine first name Gregory or Grégory derives from the Latin name "Gregorius", which came from the late Greek name "Γρηγόριος" (Grēgórios) meaning "watchful, alert" (derived from "ἐγείρω" "egeiro" meaning "to awaken, arouse"). (See also the egrḗgoroi or Watcher angels in Second Book of Enoch). Through folk etymology ...
Peter (given name) Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek Πέτρος, Petros (an invented, masculine form of Greek petra, the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic Kefa ("stone, rock"), the new name Jesus gave to apostle Simon Bar-Jona. [1] An Old English variant is Piers .