the etymology and history of first names
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Slavic Names
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Slavic names were used by the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe. Until about 1000 AD the Slavs spoke a common language, the ancestor of the Slavic languages of today.
Slavic names were most often dithematic, consisting of two elements. For example, the name Boleslav was formed of two elements, bole = "large" and slav = "glory".
See also Russian names, Polish names, Czech and Slovak names, and Bulgarian names.
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