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Name «Zhaslav»

Zhaslav

Dictionary meaning

The personal name Zhaslav is first mentioned in a record from 1466, which refers to Prince Yuri Vasilyevich Zhaslavsky, who lived in the city of Brest. This name is also found in records from 1635: Zhaslavsky Władysław Domka – a prince. The lexeme Zhaslav exhibits all the characteristics of two-root Slavic names, similar to Braslav, Soslav, Mislav, Naslav, Cheslav, and others. However, there is one peculiarity: the initial semantic component Zha- has not been established. The onomastic references of Slavic languages do not document the name Zhaslav.We hypothesize that this component may be related to the Ukrainian names Zhadan, Zhadko, or Zhazh, as well as the name Pozhar. If our assumption is correct, the original form of this two-root name could have been Zhadoslav or Zhadslav, with its pre-nominative meaning analogous to the modern adjective "glory-loving."There are no sufficient grounds to consider that the name Zhaslav is a distortion of names such as Zhazoslav, Izyaslav, or Sdislav.

English transliteration

Zhaslav

Gender

Male