Name «Bilovolod»

The name 'Bilovolod' is an ancient Slavic two-root male name, consisting of the adjective 'bily' (white) and the verb root 'vladity' (to rule or possess). The earliest mention of this name dates back to approximately 1185 in the record of a warrior named Bilovolod Prosovich, who served as a retainer of the Kyiv prince Igor Svyatoslavich.It is also known that two-root names with the component 'Bilo-' appear in other Slavic languages; for example, in Croatian, names like Belomir and Beloslav exist, as well as in Bulgarian - Beloslav and Belovos. However, none of these names contain a combination with a verbal root.O. M. Trubachov notes that the semantics of this ancient anthroponymic formation are not entirely clear. However, its word formation structure and meaning are easily analyzed and understood.