A Name Whats in A Name

Babushka Girl — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:12:55 GMT

Russian Names.

I thought I’d kick off this one letting you know about Russian names. Did you know that all children are only given a first name by his or her parents? Their middle name will be a form of their father’s first name – this is called patronymic. If Alexander has a daughter her middle name will be made up of most of his first name Alexandr with ovna which is the feminine form added at the end – she will be known as Alexandrovna – the feminine of her father’s name.

Likewise a son of Alexander will bear the masculine form for son of ovich – Alexandrovich – signifying he is the son of Alexander. I personally think it is a lovely way of remembering your dad within your own name, it carries tradition, which in this day and age is a wonderful thing! The form of addressing people by saying their first and patronymic names (for instance, Olga Petrovna, Victor Nickolaevich) shows respect to a person. You would use this sign of respect when talking to/addressing older people, heads of companies, your boss, teacher etc.

The Russian language is very rich in different forms of personal names, which express all kinds of emotions. A person can be called differently at home, at work, by unfamiliar people and his friends, etc. For example, there are more than twenty forms of Maria in Russian! Full forms are used in formal relationships, with unfamiliar people or addressing older people.
- Shortened forms are neutral and used in relationships with friends.

- Pet forms: forms with special affixes (such as –en’ka, -echka, -ochka, -ushka and others) showing affection and care.

- Intimate forms. They are very individual and everyone can invent his/her own affectionate name to show how special someone is.

So if you your name is Stella = Stelachkaka , Jessie = Jessichka and Shay= Shaychick

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A Name Whats in A Name