Ov is for a male and ova is for a female. Example. Shawova for female and shawov for males
if it ends with "ov" the man is either from Bulgaria or from Russia. Maybe there are cases in which the person has origns different from Bulgarian or Russian, but in most cases they are from those two countries or they are somehow related ;)
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O' in Irish surnames is from Ó (grandson,descendant) as in Ó Néill, grandson of Niall or Ó Briain from Brian, etc.
Please be more specific by naming which tower you mean.
The ending -ski or -sky is Slavonic, generally either Russian or Polish. Note that many Germans and Austrians have or had Slav family names.
"ov" at the end of a Russian name indicates the surname belongs to a male. In Russian, surnames have different forms depending on the gender of the person. For females, the ending would be "ova" or "aya" instead of "ov".
if it ends with "ov" the man is either from Bulgaria or from Russia. Maybe there are cases in which the person has origns different from Bulgarian or Russian, but in most cases they are from those two countries or they are somehow related ;)
Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissariónovich Stalin's real surname was Djughashvili, but he changed his surname to Stalin. The Russian word for 'steel' is 'stal', and the adjective from the noun 'stal' is 'stalnoy'. The word 'Stalin' as is does not exist in Russian, but there is a direct connection between 'Stalin' and 'stal' through the same root. Usually Russian surnames have the ending -in, -ov, or -sky.
The ending -off in a name is usually an indication of Russian or other Slavic ancestry. The original Russian form would be -ov, meaning son of.
The word "Stalin" translates to "man of steel" or "steel-like" in Russian. It is a combination of the Russian word "stal" meaning steel and the suffix "-in" typically used in Russian surnames.
the surnames areMorbyMorbeyDekenDekin
Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov
Romanov pronounced Ro-marn-ov
The Moscow phone book.
in Russian and other Slavic languages the word bear is "medved" and variants or derivatives such as medvedev are common surnames.
Means the same thing as "of"
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