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Vujičić
Vujičić ( sr, Вујичић) is a Serbian surname, a patronymic derived from ''Vujič'' or ''Vujica'', hypocoristics of the given name ''Vuk'' (meaning "wolf"). It is borne by ethnic Serbs., It is one of numerous surnames derived from the root ''Vuk''. It is present throughout former Yugoslavia. It may refer to: * Nick Vujicic (born 1982), Australian motivational speaker, Serbian parentage * Tanja Vujičić (born 1990), Bosnian beauty queen, ethnic Serb * Godefroy Vujicic (born 1975), French cellist, Serbian parentage See also * Vujčić * Vujačić * Wójcik * Vujić __NOTOC__ Vujić ( sr, Вујић) is a Serbo-Croatian surname, a patronymic derived from the masculine given name ''Vuja'', a diminutive of the name Vuk (meaning "wolf"). The surname has been historically anglicized into Vuyich, Vuyitch, Vuich. ... References External links * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vujicic Serbian surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vujčić
Vujčić (Cyrillic: Вујчић; ; ) is a surname. According to Jovan Cvijić and Jovan Erdeljanović, until the first appearance of the dictionary of Vuk Karadžić in 1867, the surname was referred to as Vuičić. At the turn of the (20th) century, some registered the name as Vujičić while others as Vujčić hence today's two separate last names. Karadžić used the letter j as a borrowing letter from the Latin alphabet. The first Vujčić is mentioned in the year 1518 around Serbia's capital Belgrade. The first mention of the Vujčić family as a tribe is in 1541 in the nahija of Zmijanje near Banja Luka where even today there are people with this surname. After this, there were migrations to Herzegovina, Montenegro then to Raška and Sjenica. After the Battle of Čegar in 1809, fearing revenge from the Ottoman Turks, the Vujčićs followed Karađorđe Petrović for the then-empty Šumadija. Karađorđe himself decided who of them would live in which area. Serbs ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Vujicic
Nicholas James Vujicic ( ; born 4 December 1982) is an Australian American Christian evangelist and motivational speaker of Serbian descent, born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterised by the absence of arms and legs. Early life Vujicic was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1982 to Dušanka and Borislav Vujičić, Serbian immigrants from Yugoslavia. He was born without fully formed limbs and he was bullied at school because of it. At one point, he tried killing himself by drowning in his bathtub but it did not continue. According to his autobiography, his mother refused to see him or hold him when the nurse held him in front of her, and she and her husband went out of the hospital. Originally, the toes of one of his feet were fused. An operation was performed to separate the toes so that he can use them as fingers to grab. He refers to it as his chicken drumstick. He attended Runcorn State High School up in Queensland and has made a couple of appearances th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vujačić
Vujačić (, ) is a Serbian and Montenegrin surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Budimir Vujačić (born 1964), Montenegrin footballer * Igor Vujačić (born 1994), Montenegrin footballer * Mihajlo Vujačić (born 1973), a Montenegrin footballer * Aleksander "Sasha" Vujačić (born 1984), Slovenian basketball player of Serbian and Montenegrin descent See also * * Vujičić * Vujčić Vujčić (Cyrillic: Вујчић; ; ) is a surname. According to Jovan Cvijić and Jovan Erdeljanović, until the first appearance of the dictionary of Vuk Karadžić in 1867, the surname was referred to as Vuičić. At the turn of the (20th) ce ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Vujačić Surnames of Serbian origin Surnames of Montenegrin origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vujić
__NOTOC__ Vujić ( sr, Вујић) is a Serbo-Croatian surname, a patronymic derived from the masculine given name ''Vuja'', a diminutive of the name Vuk (meaning "wolf"). The surname has been historically anglicized into Vuyich, Vuyitch, Vuich. In Hungary, the surname is written Vujity, though still pronounced as in Serbo-Croatian. Notable people ;Vujić * Joakim Vujić, Serbian writer, dramatist, actor, traveler and polyglot :* Statuette of Joakim Vujić (''Statueta Joakim Vujić''), Award of the Knjaževsko-srpski teatar from Kragujevac, Serbia :* The Ring with figure of Joakim Vujić (''Prsten sa likom Joakima Vujića''), Award of the Knjaževsko-srpski teatar from Kragujevac, Serbia * Mihailo Vujić (1853–1913), Serbian economist, politician and minister * Antun Vujić, Croatian politician, philosopher, political analyst and lexicographer * Ivana "Ivy" Vujic, Serbian-born Canadian bassist, member of Kittie * Marko Vujic (born 1984), Bosnian-born Austrian footballe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocoristic
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually considered distinct from diminutives, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbs
The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their nation state of Serbia, as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Kosovo. They also form significant minorities in North Macedonia and Slovenia. There is a large Serb diaspora in Western Europe, and outside Europe and there are significant communities in North America and Australia. The Serbs share many cultural traits with the rest of the peoples of Southeast Europe. They are predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christians by religion. The Serbian language (a standardized version of Serbo-Croatian) is official in Serbia, co-official in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is spoken by the plurality in Montenegro. Ethnology The identity of Serbs is rooted in Eastern Orthodoxy and traditions. In the 19th century, the Serbia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanja Vujičić
Tanja ( sr, Тања) is a feminine given name. It may refer to: Mononyms *''Tanja'' (born 1983), Russian-Estonian singer, also known as Tanja Mihhailova Given name * Tanja Andrejeva (born 1978), Macedonian handball player *Tanja Bogosavljević (born 1989), Serbian handball player * Tanja Bošković (born 1953), Serbian actress * Tanja Carovska, Macedonian singer, songwriter, and composer * Tanja Chub (born 1970), Ukrainian-Dutch draughts player *Tanja Damaske (born 1971), German javelin thrower *Tanja Dickenscheid (born 1969), German field hockey player *Tanja Dragić (born 1991), Serbian Paralympian athlete * Tanja Eisenschmid (born 1993), German ice hockey player *Tanja Eisner (born 1980), Ukrainian and German mathematician * Tanja Fajon (born 1971), Slovenian politician and a journalist * Tanja Frieden (born 1976), Swiss snowboarder *Tanja Godina (born 1970), Slovenian backstroke swimmer * Tanja Hart (born 1974), German volleyball player *Tanja Hess, German bobsledder * Tanj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godefroy Vujicic
Godefroy Vujicic (born 1975 in Paris) is a French contemporary classical cellist. Biography Born into a family of musicians (his father, Jezdimir Vujicic, was a violinist of Serbian origin, Godefroy Vujicic successively obtained two first prizes for cello and chamber music at the , two first prizes "with distinction" in the same disciplines at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels then the higher education diploma of the Conservatoire de Paris. He played for Europe Day in 1994, in trio with a Croatian pianist and a Bosnian violinist at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, aired live on Euronews. On this occasion, Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission, congratulated him for this "Exemplary understanding approach". He interpreted the complete six Cello Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach for the opening of the Festival du "Mois Molière" (2000 edition) in Versailles in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the death of the composer, followed by a tour of radio and televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wójcik
Wójcik, Wojczik, Wojczyk, Wojszyk (also variants of phonetic spelling: Woicik, Woycik, Woyczik, Woytik, etc.) is one of the oldest Polish surnames, and the fourth most common in Poland (100,064 in 2009).Ministry of Interior (Poland). Statystyka najpopularniejszych nazwisk występujących w Polsce in 2009'' (The most popular surnames in Poland in 2009). Archaic feminine forms are derived by adding suffixes: ''-owa'' for married woman and ''-ówna'' for maiden name. There are several suggested origins of the surname: diminutive from the occupation of wójt or from the given name Wojciech. It may also be a nickname by the bird '' wójcik'' (greenish warbler).WÓJCIK (contains further references) Feminine forms are Wójcik, Wójcikówna, Wójcikowa. Over the centuries, from many dialects arose multiple spellings for the Wójcik surname, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
