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Help with Russian/Ukrainian name.
My boyfriend had a friend with the coolest middle name, and I've been trying to figure out how to spell it exactly or what it might even mean.It sounds like: Seh-mohn-ov-nah.I was thinking it might be spelled like:SimonovnaNot sure... I don't know much about the names in these areas...Any ideas? Help?
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It's probably either Semyonovna or Symonovna and it means 'daughter of Semyon (or Symon)'. Russians and Ukrainians don't have a middle name in the western European sense. Instead, they have a patronymic name that is derived from the name of their father -- in this case, Semyon or Symon.~ Ivayla,
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Thanks!
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Wouldn't Simonov be: Son of Simon? Could be the female version of that ... though I'm a total amateur at Slavic languages.
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I think it would be daughter of Simon... hence ova or ovna. The 'a' at the end would make it feminine, I thought.
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