Shevchenko is a common Ukrainian surname.
There are several versions of the origin of the surname:
- Workshop, that is, given by craft. This craft was called Shevchevsky . [1] A Shvets, a Shvets is a tailor, a shoemaker engaged in sewing clothes, shoes made of fabric and leather. This name of this profession was common in the villages and villages of eastern Ukraine. The sons of the Shevts received the surname Shevchenko and many other similar surnames. [2]
2. According to another version, the name Shevchenko may have Adyghe roots. In the XV century, several waves of Circassian military emigration passed through the territory of the Middle Dnieper and Left-Bank Ukraine. Adygs called their Christian priests "sheujen". The descendants of these priests could well have received the names "sheujenyako", "shevzhenko", "shevchenko". [one]
3. By position. Among the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, the ramrod worker, who was cleaning the barrel of the muskets with a ramrod, was called a “shevchik” . [3] Although, on the other hand, shevchiks were also called assistants to the shevts (tailors). [4] Most of Shevchenko’s ancestors got their surname in the first way. Among them are the ancestors of the famous poet - T. G. Shevchenko [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Sew // Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language : in 4 volumes / auth. V.I. Dahl . - 2nd ed. - SPb. : Printing house of M.O. Wolf , 1880-1882.
- ↑ Doctor of Philology A. SUPERANSKAYA about the origin of surnames
- ↑ About Shevchenko’s nickname (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 8, 2008. Archived February 18, 2008.
- ↑ Sosyura V. The Third Company , part XII
- ↑ Lyudmila Krasitskaya “Cossack Ivan Shvets was the founder of the Taras Shevchenko clan on the father’s side” (inaccessible link)
See also
- Shevchenkovsky
Links
- Shevchenko at the Rodovod