corrections Re: [free-sklyarov] American spelling of Sklyarov

Ilya Volynets ilya at theIlya.com
Mon Jul 23 09:02:14 PDT 2001


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> As the other natives have pointed out, it ceartainly does NOT directly
> mean that in modern Russian. My HUNCH is that the etymology is >90% likely
> to have ONCE been from the same root as the English "scholar" (presumably
> diverging at Greek), but do NOT take this for a fact until someone
> verifies the etymology, which I don't have time to do right now, and can
> given reasonable evidence behind their claim...
My guess would be that last name originating from "scholar" would
sound more like "shklyarov". "Sklyarov" is more likely rooted
in "glass". "Sklo" is still word for "glass" in many slavic languages,
and was in ancient russian, to the best of my knowledge.
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