Name «Horodyslava»

The female name Horodyslava corresponds to the male name Horodyslav, which consists of the verbal root "horodyty," meaning 'to fence,' 'to build,' and the noun root "slava," meaning 'glory.' The earliest mention of this personal name dates back to 1130 and refers to the daughter of Prince Svyatoslav Vseslavich - Horodyslava-Evdokiya. The same source also mentions Horodyslava as the sister of Polotsk's Peredsava.The "Dictionary of Names of Ukrainians" only provides an incomplete variant of this name, namely Hradyslava, and only in the "Appendix of Obsolete and Rarely Used Names." Russian and South Slavic dictionaries also only list the incomplete variant Hradyslava. In Ukraine, the memory of the personal name Horodyslava has been preserved since the 15th century in the name of the village Horodyslavychi in the Carpathians.