Surname Zaytsev: the origin. How was it perceived before and today?
Many names before their owners pose a mystery: Logachev, Rogachev, Rogozhin, Piksanov. Also interesting is the name Zayats. From it we will begin our excursion into the history of Russian surnames.
What does my name say?
Where did this short and capacious name come from andWhat does it mean? To do this, it is necessary to go deeper into the story, when people endowed with the soul all the living things that surrounded them: a tree, a stone, a tract, a stream. Everything was alive and spiritual. This time is called shamanism. Primary beliefs forced children to give names to animals, in this case Hare. According to legends, he was wise, fast, fast and cunning. Such qualities, transferred to the boy's name, protected, in the opinion of parents, a child from evil forces.
When Russia was baptized, by tradition, parentstogether with the baptismal name of the saints (Alexei, Ivan, Vasily, who for the ear of the peasant sounded alien, in Greek) continued to give the kids additional nicknames. They are permanently entrenched in the ancestral memory. Such a name could get an adult light-legged man, as well as a hare hunter. In the XV century this name was very often met. In the documents, you can meet a peasant Oksochkago churchyard named Ivashko Zayets, as well as his land in the Kotorsky Pogost Zaets Vasyukov's son, or a Kamenev petty bourgeois who was called the Wild Hare. Surname The hare appeared without a suffix. This very early form of surnames is especially characteristic for Belarusians and Ukrainians. Such an antiquity is a monument of writing and culture of the Slavs.
Correct declination
Specialists-linguists did not come to a common opinion. A fluent vowel can stay or fall out. Examples: The Hare-Hare-Hare or the Hare-Hare-Hare.
What do the surnames mean?
The most common Russian surnames, which are in the top ten:
- Smirnov.
- Ivanov.
- Kuznetsov.
- Sokolov.
- Popov.
- Lebedev.
- Kozlov.
- Novikov.
- Morozov.
- Petrov.
The carriers of these surnames, as we see, received themeither from the weather (Moroz-Morozov), the bestial (Sokolov, Lebedev, Kozlov) or a working nickname (Kuznetsov). Surnames were also formed from Greek names. The exception is Popov. This last name answers the question "whose?" And indicates ownership of the owner or father. The second exception is Novikov's surname. She has four versions of the origin, but they are very close. The essence is that a person is an alien in this place. He is a "novice".
This could also be a rookie, who alsothey called him a "novice," or a young man who came to the service of an influential person again, and so was the young month. The nobles stressed the last syllable Novikov, and ordinary people - on the first. These brief principles explain how the Russian names appeared. But it is very interesting to understand the name Zaitsev.
Family name Zaitsev
What is the Zaytsev's name? Her origin is ancient, which is confirmed by numerous documents. The worldly nickname The Hare is its foundation. First, the worldly name was added to the baptismal name, which did not have a sacred meaning and was therefore widely used. The church (main) name "hid" behind the nickname. Parents could choose as options for such options as the Wolf, Nightingale, Kalina, Belka, so that nature would grow up with the child and take care of him. The kid became, in the opinion of his parents, half pagan, half Christian, part of the universe, which perceived him as a native and guarded him, and also bestowed his qualities on him.
Celebrities
- Repeated champion of the world and olympiad in figure skating - Alexander Zaitsev.
- Couturier, theorist and fashion practitioner - Vyacheslav Zaitsev.
- The dancer of the Mikhailovsky Theater, who performs all the main parts in ballets, is Ivan Zaitsev.
- The prose writer from the emigration of the first wave, the continuer of the traditions of I. Turgenev and A. Chekhov - Boris Konstantinovich Zaitsev.
Zaitsev is a name to be proud of.
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