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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.)
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Eastern Slavic parents select a given name for a newborn child. Most first names in East Slavic languages originate from two sources: Eastern Orthodox Church tradition; native pre-Christian Slavic lexicons; Almost all first names are single. Doubled first names (as in, for example, French, like Jean-Luc) are very rare and are from foreign ...
Slava (given name) Slavic dithematic names; V. Vekenega (given name) Z. Zarina; Zhenya
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.
German-Sorbian scholar Schuster-Šewc listed the *srъb-/ *sьrb-roots in Slavic words meaning "to sip, munch", found in Polish s(i)erbać, Russian сербать, etc., and also cognates in non-Slavic languages, such as Lithuanian suřbti, Middle German sürfen, which all derive from Indo-European onomatopoeic roots *serbh-/ *sirbh-/ *surbh ...
The name Vladislav literally means 'one who owns a glory', or simply 'famous'. It is a composite name derived from two Slavic roots: Vlad-, meaning either 'to own' (Ukrainian volodity [володiти] means 'to own', Polish władać ['to possess'], Russian vladet [владеть 'to own']), or 'to rule' (another meaning of Polish władać is 'to rule'.
In Rome, slaves were given a single name by their owner. A slave who was freed might keep his or her slave name and adopt the former owner's name as a praenomen and nomen. As an example, one historian says that "a man named Publius Larcius freed a male slave named Nicia, who was then called Publius Larcius Nicia." [1]