Etymograph

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Soloviova

Soloviova comes from Ukrainian Соловйова, from соловей ‘nightingale’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solHwos.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*solHwosreconstructed
  2. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*solvъ‘cream-colored’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Slavic, derivedc. 400–900 CE*solvьjь‘nightingale’reconstructed
  4. Old East Slavicmodernсоловии
  5. Ukrainianmodernсоловей‘nightingale’
  6. Ukrainian, derivedmodernСоловйов
  7. Ukrainian, derivedmodernСоловйоваSolovjova
  8. EnglishtodaySoloviova

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*solHwosreconstructed
  2. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*solvъ‘cream-colored’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Slavic, derivedc. 400–900 CE*solvьjь‘nightingale’reconstructed
  4. Old East Slavicmodernсоловии
  5. Ukrainianmodernсоловей‘nightingale’
  6. Ukrainian, derivedmodernСоловйов
  7. Ukrainian, derivedmodernСоловйоваSolovjova
  8. EnglishtodaySoloviova

Today it means

name A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Соловйова (Solovjova).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *solHwos / Soloviova