Are vladimir and volodymyr variations of the same name?

S K

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Jan 13, 2022, 11:38:52 AMJan 13

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Christian Weisgerber

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Jan 14, 2022, 10:30:07 AMJan 14

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On 2022-01-13, S K <skpf...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Subject: Are vladimir and volodymyr variations of the same name?

Yes.

There is the curious observation that many East Slavic names exist
in Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian variants and, when a person
is referred to, the name is adapted to the language the speaker/writer
uses. For examples, pick a famous person from one of those countries
and compare the Wikipedia entries in the respective language editions:

ru: Владимир Владимирович Путин (Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin)
be: Уладзімір Уладзіміравіч Пуцін (Uladzimir Uladzimiravich Putsin)
uk: Володимир Володимирович Путін (Volodymyr Volodymyrovytch Putin)

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de

S K

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Jan 15, 2022, 11:23:40 AMJan 15

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On Friday, January 14, 2022 at 10:30:07 AM UTC-5, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

Thank you. Are variations like this and

Catherine: Ekaterina (Russian), Catriona or Catrina (Scottish), Katarzyna (Polish), Katharina (German), Caitríona (Gaelic), Catarina (Italian).
Elizabeth: Elisheba (Hebrew), Elisabeta (Hawaiian), Elisabetta (Italian), Elzbieta (Polish), Elisabet (Scandinavian).
Edward: Édouard (French), Eduard (German), Eadbhard (Irish), Eduardo (Italian), Edvard (Scandinavian).
Christopher: Christoph (German), Cristoforo (Italian).

due to native sound changes of an underlying root name?

Daud Deden

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Jan 15, 2022, 9:04:09 PMJan 15

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I think San women called Elizabeth Marshall "Lispe".

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