Aleksiyevich (also Alexievich and other variants, , be, Алексіевіч uk, Алексієвич) is an East Slavic family name derived from the
Old East Slavic
Old East Slavic (traditionally also Old Russian; be, старажытнаруская мова; russian: древнерусский язык; uk, давньоруська мова) was a language used during the 9th–15th centuries by East ...
given name Aleksiy (modern
Alexey). It should not be confused with the patronymic of the same spelling; the difference is in the stress: the surname has the
penultimate stress (i.e., on the second last syllable), while the patronymic inherits the stress of the given name, i.e., on the second syllable: Але́ексиевич.
The surname may refer to
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Svetlana Alexievich (born 1948), Belarusian Nobel award-winning writer
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Illya Aleksiyevich
Ilya Leonidovich Aleksiyevich ( be, Ілья Леанідавіч Алексіевіч; russian: Илья Леонидович Алексиевич; born 10 February 1991) is a Belarusian professional football player who plays for BATE Borisov ...
(born 1991), Belarusian footballer
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East Slavic-language surnames