Name «Zhdyn»

The name 'Zhdyn' is a Ukrainian personal name derived from the name of the village Zhdienievo, located in the Volovec district. The village was founded in the 16th century in the basin of the Latorica River. This name is formed from the root 'Zhdi-', which means 'to wait' or 'to expect'. This same root is present in the names of the village and the local stream Zhdymyr. The suffix '-n' used in this name is analogous to the suffixes in calendar names such as Hryn (Hryhoriy) and Shten (Stefan). The root 'Zhdi-' and the suffix '-n' can also be found in the name of the Galician Lemko village Zhdynia, which is near the city of Krynica. Additionally, there is a modern Ukrainian surname Zhdyniak and its phonetic variant Zhdyniak, which is found in the Przemyśl region.