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Just to reinforce the point: Those are all part of the INDO-European language group. Emphasis on the fact that European is only half that name, and you're enu
by jdmichal 6y ago
Just to reinforce the point: Those are all part of the INDO-European language group. Emphasis on the fact that European is only half that name, and you're enumerating languages in the other half.
- samatman 6y agoTo really flog on it, Hungarian isn't Indo-European at all, and Sámuel is a Hungarian name. I'd bet you'll find it among Copts and the Ethiopian Orthodox as well, which is also not in contradiction to what I said.
- msikora 6y agoSamuel is really the perfect name as even the spelling is the same in all European languages except for diacritics in some languages. My name, Michal (Slovak), is not too bad, but the local version varies greatly across Europe: Michael, Michele, Mikael, Miguel, Михаил (Michail), Mihái, etc.
- gostsamo 6y agoUnfortunately, at least in bulgarian Samuel is spelled Samuil (Самуил). Not sure about russian and ukrainian, but they've gotten the slavic translation of the Bible from medieval Bulgaria and a fast ddg shows the family form to exists as "Самуилович".
- orthoxerox 6y agoWe have Samuil, but it's more common among Russian Jews than ethnic Russians.