Name «Hoi»

The name "Goy" in Ukraine began to be recorded from the 15th century. Most of them contain the closed phoneme /ґ/. For example, in 1437, the anthroponym Goya was recorded (AGZXII 138), in 1458, there is a mention of "the faith of Lord Goy, the steward" in the village of Korochyn Kamin (SSUM I 247), in the 16th century we encounter Andrus Goy (Demchuk 62), and in 1637 — Onysko Goy (Arch YZR VI/1 483). Southern and western Slavs still preserve about 20 names with the root "Goy," such as Goy, Goyan, Goylo, Goyko, etc. (Grk 65, Styshvyts 9), while in Ukraine, the anthroponymic base "Goy" is currently represented only by surnames, such as Goysa, Goychenko, Goychuk, etc. Among Alpine Slavs, from the 7th to the 14th centuries, there are 39 instances of masculine names with the post-positioned component -gojb (Kronsteiner 298), and in the city of Trieste (now Italy), personal names Maligoj, Mucigoj, Ćrnogoj were recorded as early as the 14th century (Mekhkyi 452).The semantics of the anthroponymic base "Goy" is ambiguous. Most likely, this is the same root "goy-" with the meaning of "to heal," "health," which is also found in the compounds Goy-bud, Goymirk, Budivoy, Dobrogoy (Svob 75). Other researchers see in the anthroponym the final of the name Dragoy (Ilchev 136), while others search for the meaning of the Proto-Slavic noun *gojb, which could mean "peace," "tranquility," "medicines," "health," "nourishment," "wealth" (Svob 75; Grk 64). Some also find in this name a truncated variant of the personal name Niegoye (SSUM I 247).