To the Origins of Russian Surnames with the Stem Maur-
The paper delves into the etymology of East Slavic (including Russian) surnames with the stem Maur- (Maur, Maurenko, Maurin, Maurinov, Maurov, Maurtsev, etc.). The author shows that these can neither go back to the female calendar name Mavra, as popular Internet sources suggest, nor refer to a femal...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Вопросы ономастики |
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| Online Access: | http://onomastics.ru/sites/default/files/doi/10.15826/vopr_onom.2020.17.3.035.pdf |