need to know where my last name comes from
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Re: need to know where my last name comes from
| Gulnara Elrod (View posts) | Posted: 28 Jun 2005 2:31AM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Nemilovich, Nimilovich.
The meaning of the word Nemilovich is easy to understand, when one knows Russian. It comes from name Nemil. Anyway, I also looked it up in the dictionary of old Russian language, written by famous Russian linquist Dal. However, when names were created in those begone times, parents would give a child some bad name in order to fool the devil, the distractive powers of the world. They'd name child "Ugly" or "Scurge", etc. This is obviously one of those cases.
This name ends with "ovich", thus making its origins Ukrainian, Polish, or ancient Bulgarian ( szekely people particularly).