Avenir (russian: Авени́р) is a Russian Christian male
first name.
[Superanskaya, p. 22] Its feminine version is
Avenira.
[Petrovsky, pp. 33–34] The name is derived from the
Biblical Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew (, or , ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanite branch of Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of ...
word ''a
bnēr'', meaning ''father (god) is light''.
Its colloquial variant is Venir ().
The
diminutive
A diminutive is a root word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment. A (abbreviated ) is a word-formati ...
s of "Avenir" are Avenirka (), Ava (), Venya (), Vena (), Vira (), and Vera ().
The
patronymics derived from "Avenir" are "" (''Avenirovich''; masculine) and its colloquial form "" (''Avenirych''), and "" (''Avenirovna''; feminine).
See also
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Abner (name) Abner is both a surname and a given name. In the United States, it was moderately popular as a given name, but declined in the first half of the 20th century, rarely being used for newborns after the 1930s. The best known is Abner from the Bible (Bo ...
References
Notes
Sources
*А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Современный словарь личных имён: Сравнение. Происхождение. Написание" (''Modern Dictionary of First Names: Comparison. Origins. Spelling''). Айрис-пресс. Москва, 2005.
*Н. А. Петровский (N. A. Petrovsky). "Словарь русских личных имён" (''Dictionary of Russian First Names''). ООО Издательство "АСТ". Москва, 2005.
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