Ukrainian names
Myron Hlynka
recognizing Ukrainian names.
For example names ending in -ko, or especially -enko, are
often Ukrainian.
(eg. Shevchenko, Lysenko, Franko)
As well, names ending in -uk or especially -chuk, are often
Ukrainian.
(eg. Hawerchuk, Kravchuk, Mandziuk)
I am interested in how strong an indicator is the ending -un for a
Ukrainian name.
For example Dr. Peter Peskun, a Statistics professor at York University
in Toronto, is of Ukrainian ancestry.
My dentist when I lived in Edmonton, Dr. Sharun, is of Ukrainian
ancestry.
I have a relative with the surname Hladun, of Ukrainian ancestry.
Bohdan Rekshynskyj recently mentioned a Dr. Zwarun, of Ukrainian
ancestry.
One of the names I have always been curious about is Bohun.
One of the families of the nobility in England was Bohun. I think
the name shows up in the novel Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott. The
family was Norman (from France). But the name Bohun does not
sound English or French. With the Ukrainian prefix Boh- and the
Ukrainian suffix -un, I have to believe that the name
Bohun has Ukrainian roots. I wonder if the family came to France at the
time when Queen Anna from Ukraine (daughter of the Ukrainian
king Yaroslaw the Wise ?) was essentially the ruler of France.
Can anyone help with a list of Ukrainian names ending in
-un.
So far we have
Peskun, Sharun, Hladun, Zwarun.
Myron Hlynka
Dept. of Math. & Stat.
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario, CANADA
(hly...@server.uwindsor.ca)
Hugh Agnew
For what it's worth, my family practice physician here is Dr. Eugene
Shmorhun, of Ukrainian ancestry.
Hugh Agnew
History Department
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
similar to The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, to
Ukranian names.
Steven
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
sj...@access.digex.net
Bohdan Rekshynskyj
In article 40...@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca, hly...@server.uwindsor.ca (Myron Hlynka) writes:
(edited to save space)
>Recently on this newsgroup, there has been a discussion on
>recognizing Ukrainian names.
>Ukrainian name.
>
>-un.
>
>So far we have
>Peskun, Sharun, Hladun, Zwarun.
>
> Myron Hlynka
Yes, there was one fellow who went to school with me whose last name
was "Perun", after the main god of pagan Ukraine...
Regards,
Bohdan Petro Rekshyns'kyj
Bohdan Rekshynskyj
In article 4...@access.digex.net, sj...@access.digex.net (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols) writes:
>This discussion leads me to the question: Are there any good sources,
>similar to The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, to
>Ukranian names.
>
Yes, there is a small book containing such names - I remember seeing it
some months ago but have no other info, sorry!
Bohdan Petro Rekshyns'kyj
Bob Fedun
Add my surname to the list.
Bob Fedun
Bob_...@QUEST.ucs.ualberta.ca
Bob Fedun
mark.mykulyn
I can't add a -un ending, but mines a -yn. I believe we are of Ukrainian
ancestry. I believe my great grandparents came to the Americas around 1917.
I've heard the name means "from the house of Nicholas." Anybody ever hear of
the surname?
Mark Mykulyn
ma...@cbnewsf.att.com
Myron Hlynka
explanation you have for the name Mykulyn sounds correct to me.
Myron Hlynka
Pete Matula
names?"
I know of one such source: a book by Julian K. Red'ko "Suchasni Ukrains'ki
Prizvyscha" (Current Ukrainian Family Names), publ. by the Academy of
Sciences of the Ukr.S.S.R., Kyyiv 1966. (5" x 8", 215 pgs.)
Unfortunately, this book, although it seems to contain a wealth of information,
it is not constructed as a reference for a quick identification of names.
Like most Soviet books, it does not have an index. It is a study how
the names were created but it does give a map of distribution of suffixes
throughout Ukraine.
In subsequent posts, using this book, I'll attempt to contribute to
Myron Hlynka's (#193) question on the ending -un, and Brian Peterson's
(#204) on the name of Buzick (byuzik).
Regarding a standard for transliteration, one candidate could be the
Library of Congress' alphabet as modified by the Journal of Ukrainian
Studies (Canada). See the back of back issues. I'll "publish" it tomorrow.
Petro M.
Pete Matula
According to Red'ko (#235), Ukrainian names are of two groups: of adjective
type (e.g.: Hordyns'ky, Bilyns'ky, Mykhailyshyn), and of noun type (e.g.:
Hlynka, Petrenko, Kandyba). It appears that names ending with -un belong
to the noun type only. The names created with this suffix occur quite
frequently and constitute 2.1% of all noun type names, or 185 out of 9200
names.
The distribution of -un ending names is as follows (by Oblast'):
Sums'ka and Luhans'ka - 2.6% ea.
Khmel'nyc'ka -2.4%; Poltavs'ka - 2.2%; Odes'ka - 2.1%;
Zaporiz'ka and Dnipropetrovs'ka - 1.9& ea.; Other eastern obl - 1.5% ea.
on avg.; Western Obl., Ternopil's'ka, Iv.Fr., L'vivs'ka and other -
less than 1% ea.
A sample of names ending on -un: Fedun, Svystun, Povzun, Sheptun, Hladun,
Kovtun, Skakun, Shmorhun, Burkun, Rachun, Vovkun, and 174 more.
Petro M.
Myron Hlynka
>This discussion leads me to the question: Are there any good sources,
>similar to The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, to
>Ukranian names.
There are a couple of books mentioned in the Edmonton book store
catalogue.
Dictionary of Ukrainian Surnames in Australia, by S. radion
176 pp. Umman, Melbourne, 1981. $8.
Dictionary of Ukrainian Surnames in Canada, by F. Bogdon.
354 pp. U.V.A.N., Vancouver, 1974. $11.
These books are, I believe, merely name lists, without a
description of origin. They are also far from being complete.
Myron Hlynka
hly...@server.uwindsor.ca
Pete Matula
I'm returning to this question only because I promised (235) but I don't
have a good handle on it.
Red@ko (235) discusses names ending on "-yk (ik)" and gives a lot of
examples of names ending on -yk but not a single one on -ik. True, in
one place he talks about "Riznyk" and a russified form of it as "Reznik"
but I have not spotted another name ending on -ik in the whole book.
Reaching, here is an assumption: what if the original name was BUZOK
(lilac in Ukr.) which eventually became Buzick. But this game is endless.
(BTW, "y" in "-yk" is pronounced as in "typical".)
Petro M.
