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Zawadzki Bookstore In Vilnius
Zawadzki (feminine: Zawadzka, plural: Zawadzcy) is a Polish and Ukrainian surname. It is a toponymic surname derived from one of the numerous locations named Zawada or Zawady. It may belong to a noble family bearing the Zawadzki coat of arms. Historically, due to the instability of the orthography, as well as in the periods of the partitions of Poland by foreign powers the same person or persons of the same family could use different spelling of the surname. Variant spellings include Zawadski, Zavadsky, Zavadski, Zawadowsky, Zawadowski, Sawadsky, Sawadski, Sawatsky, Sawatzky, Zawatzki, etc. Notable people with these surnames include: Zawadzki, Zawadski or Zawacki * Agnes Zawadzki (born 1994), American figure skater * Aleksander Zawadzki (other) * Andrew Zawacki (born 1972), American poet * Angelica Zawadzki (born 1952), Mexican sprint canoer * Anna Zawadzka (1919–2004), Polish author * Dariusz Zawadzki (born 1982), Polish football player * Ewa Zawadzka (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Name
Polish names have two main elements: the given name, and the surname. The usage of personal names in Poland is generally governed by civil law, church law, personal taste and family custom. The law requires a given name to indicate the person's gender. Almost all Polish female names end in a vowel ''-a'', and most male names end in a consonant or a vowel other than ''a''. There are, however, a few male names that end in ''a'', which are very old and uncommon, such as Barnaba, Bonawentura, Boryna, Jarema, Kosma, Kuba (a diminutive of Jakub) and Saba. Maria is a female name that can be used also as a middle (second) name for males. Since the High Middle Ages, Polish-sounding surnames ending with the masculine ''-ski'' suffix, including ''-cki'' and ''-dzki'', and the corresponding feminine suffix ''-ska/-cka/-dzka'' were associated with the nobility (Polish ''szlachta''), which alone, in the early years, had such suffix distinctions. Zenon Klemensiewicz, ''Historia języka polskie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |