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:
Simonovna
Not sure... I don't know much about the names in these areas...
Any ideas? Help?
It sounds like: Seh-mohn-ov-nah.
I was thinking it might be spelled like:
Simonovna
Not sure... I don't know much about the names in these areas...
Any ideas? Help?
Replies
Wouldn't Simonov be: Son of Simon? Could be the female version of that ... though I'm a total amateur at Slavic languages.
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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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.
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Thanks!