Name «Khuiets»

The personal name of nickname type - Khuyets. This name was recorded by a scribe in 1468, referring to the owner of an estate and his "mill on the Seret, where there is Khuyets." The name of the village Khuyets is also documented in 1433 and 1468 in the same area of Suceava. This name is also found in the Moldavian principality. The compilers of the SSUM dictionary explain the term "Khuyets" as "a personal name of a Moldavian Hutsul." Romanian linguist D. Bogdan, in his work "The Connection Between the Onomastics of Moldavian and Ukrainian Acts," published in 1961 in Kyiv, asserts that Khuyets from 1433 is "a Russian surname corresponding to the Romanian 'miqfutil'." It is important to note that in 1363 a similar name of one of the bandits is also documented in Uzhanshchina: "Andream quondam famulum Paulidicti Chue."