Vladimir (first name)

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Vladimir ( Russian Владимир , Ukrainian Wolodymyr , Old East Slavic Wolodimer ) is a masculine given name . The emphasis on the name in the pronunciation is on the first i. Pet forms of Vladimir are Wolodja , Wolodjka , Wlad , Wowa , Wowan , Wowik , Wowka , Wowtschik , Vowotschka . The adequate female name form is Vladimíra or Wladimira or occasionally Vladimirka .

Name variants

Variations also include: Wowa, Vladim, Vladan, Vlado, Vladko, Vláďa, Vlada, Vlade, Vlad , Vladík, Vlajko, Vladka, Vladki, Vladi, Valdas and Volodja.

Name meaning and origin

The name Vladimir is historically documented for the first time for the Bulgarian ruler Vladimir Rassate (Bulgarian Владимир Расате) (* around 850; † after 893), the eldest son of Boris I. Michael . Other variants are old black. Volodiměr (Володимѣръ) and kirchenslav. Vladiměr (Владимѣръ), the first part of which refers to the Church Slav. vlad (владь "power" or "rule") refers; the second part is related to Got. mērs "big" and ahd. mari "famous". Hence, Vladimir means "great in his power". The ending -mir (миръ) came folk etymology under the influence of me on (мир "world community of peace"). Hence the interpretation as “ruler of peace”, “ruler of the world” and the like.

Both syllables are common components of two-part Slavic names and can also be found in other first names such as Wladislaw or Jaromir , Dragomir , Kazimir , Velimir , Lubomir , Vlastimir , Radomir , Mojmir , Sławomir and others. a. In Church Slavonic, Vladimir was often used as the Slavic name for Jerusalem .

Whether the name Waldemar ("great, famous ruler"), which is present in the Germanic languages , is congruent with Vladimir is disputed. An equivalent is the relatively rare German first name Herfried . A part of the onomastics suspects a Germanic origin in the Slavic name Vladimir ; others trace both forms of name back to a common Indo-European root.

The origin of the dispute about the connection Waldemar - Wladimer - Wladimir also lies in the fact that at the time of the establishment of the Kiev Empire all members of the princely clan Rurikovići ( Rurikids ) had North Germanic names, which were later Slavicized. Thus, from Ingwar Igor , from Helgi and Helga came Oleg and Olga , from Swendoslev was Svyatoslav etc. Also, little research is the possible Turkish - Khazar influence on the transition from the Church Slavonic suffix -er (-ѣръ) of the name Vladimir to those of ethnic variants: -ir, -mir, -dimir .

Name bearer

Vladimir

Vlado

Vladimir

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vladimir . In: Max Vasmer: Russian Etymological Dictionary (in Russian translation). Retrieved January 9, 2009
  2. ↑ August Bielenstein: The Limits of the Latvian Tribe and the Latvian Language in the Present and in the 13th Century , A Contribution to Ethnological Geography and History of Russia, Volume 1, Adamant Media 2001, ISBN 0-543-91824-6 , p. 471 .
  3. ↑ see also Miroslav
  4. ↑ In the last century, in the course of the state-led political-historical campaign of the so-called "Fight against Normannism", all research on the Germanic roots of the old Russian princely or imperial family in Russia was rejected, banned or concealed.