Personal names on -me
Personal names in -mir are personal names , especially in the Slavic-speaking area.
origin
Personal names in -mir were first used as a Greek spelling of Germanic names ( Valamir , Theodemir in the 5th century).
In the 8th century Vojnomir was mentioned as a Slavic prince in Dalmatia . In 806 Sclaomir appeared on the Elbe in Mecklenburg with the Slavic tribe of the Obodrites , around 850 Malamir as ruler of the Danube-Bulgarian Empire .
meaning
The word component -mir was the Greek spelling of Germanic -mer . This was derived from mērs = famous .
This spelling was adopted in the Slavic languages. There it is usually mistakenly understood as Slavic me = world , peace . The preceding component seems to be mostly of Slavic origin ( slav , jar , ostr, etc.).
Names
-me
- Branimir (Croatia)
- Dobromir (Elbe Slavs ?, Bulgaria)
- Dragomir (Brandenburg, Serbia, Bulgaria)
- Jaromir (Bohemia)
- Kasimir (Poland, Pomerania)
- Krešimir (Croatia)
- Lubomír (Bohemia)
- Mesamir (Anten)
- Mojmir / Momir (Moravia, Serbia)
- Mutimir / Muncimir (Serbia, Croatia)
- Ostromir (Novgorod)
- Radomir (Bulgaria, Serbia)
- Ratimir (Croatia)
- Sławomir (Mecklenburg, Moravia, Poland)
- Stanimir (Bulgaria)
- Strojimir (Serbia)
- Tichomir (Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria)
- Trpimir (Croatia)
- Tugumir (Brandenburg)
- Velimir
- Volmir (Poland?)
- Vlastimir (Serbia, Bohemia)
- Vojnomir (Croatians)
- Vladimir (Bulgaria, Kievan Rus)
Me-
- Mironeg (Novgorod)
- Miroslav (Croatia)
literature
- Max Vasmer, Russian etymological dictionary , Heidelberg 1953-1958, ZDB -ID 1341766-6
- Max Vasmer, Этимологический словарь русского языка , (Russian translation) by Oleg N. Trubachev, with additions and comments, Moscow 1973–1984 ( article Vladimir )