Ayedonitsky (; masculine) or Ayedonitskaya (; feminine) is a Russian
last name
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Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, ...
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[Ganzhina, p. 15] It is a
Russian surname originated in clergy, artificially created from the
Latin
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word ''aedon'', meaning ''
nightingale
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Boris Unbegaun
Boris Ottokar Unbegaun (russian: Бори́с Ге́нрихович Унбега́ун, ''Boris Genrikhovich Unbegaun'') (1898, Moscow – 1973) was a Russian-born German linguist and philologist, expert in Slavic studies: Slavic languages and ...
, ''Русские фамилии'', pp
169–180
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seminaries
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[Fedosyuk]
entry on "Аедоницкий"
or as a Latin translation of the Russian last name Solovyov Solovyov, Solovyev, Solovjev, or Soloviev (Russian: Соловьёв) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine forms are Solovyova, Solovyeva or Solovieva. It derives from the first name or nickname Solovei (соловей), which also means ni ...
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References
Sources
*И. М. Ганжина (I. M. Ganzhina). "Словарь современных русских фамилий" (''Dictionary of Modern Russian Last Names''). Москва, 2001.
*Ю. А. Федосюк (Yu. A. Fedosyuk). "Русские фамилии: популярный этимологический словарь" (''Russian Last Names: a Popular Etymological Dictionary''). Москва, 2006.
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Russian-language surnames