Name «Slavuta»

The name "Slavuta" is derived from the anthroposystem "slav-" with the suffix "-uta." It is possible that this name is a remnant of the ancient name of the Dnipro River or the name of the city of Slavuta in the Khmelnytskyi region. However, in the role of an anthroponym, the lexeme "Slavuta" first appears in Ukraine only in the 16th century. For example, in documents from 1529, Slavuta is mentioned, and in 1648–1649, a reference to Vasyl Sławuta is found. By the 17th century, patronymics such as Sławutyn begin to emerge from it, recorded in documents from 1665.As for the variant "Slavyata," it is an ancient Slavic formation with the suffix "-ęta" from the anthroposystem "Slav-." The earliest Ukrainian record of this masculine name dates back to 1094 when Slavyata, a boyar of Kyiv, is mentioned as an envoy of Sviatopolk Izyaslavich to Volodymyr Vsevolodovych. In 1095, there is a record: "in that night, Volodymyr sent Slavyata..."