Example sentences for: rybakin

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  • Rybakin's etymologies are mostly quite sound and accord with current scholarship.

  • When a name is biblical and of Hebrew origin, too, Rybakin boldly goes where few lexicographers have gone before and gives the actual Hebrew (albeit in Roman transliteration).

  • But maybe Rybakin felt that thus far is far enough, and that for surname origins the reader is best advised to consult a different dictionary, such as his own.

  • A typical Rybakin main name entry has seven items of information following the headword that is the name itself: pronunciation (in IPA), gender, Russian form (both traditional and modern), language(s) of origin, ultimate literal meaning, examples of literary bearers, and derivatives.

  • In a bare six and a half pages Rybakin takes us on a crash course in the history of English first names, from Anglo-Saxon Æthelbeald to the titlederived names of modern times such as Duke and Earl . He rightly devotes part of his survey to a consideration of surnames as first names, although in his main entries names of this type such as Bradley, Chester, Clifford, and Seymour are simply explained as deriving `from the surname.


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