I feel all left out here, western names are not so much fun to pull apart,
and if you do most of the time it isnt worth it, yeah names mave have a
meaning, but its often a pile of boll*cks, made up so someone could print a
"meaning of names" book, followed by a bunch of stereotypical rot

eg

Steve - Gay Hairdresser

the names may once have had a real meaning, as yours does, but in this
society of hallmark holidays, they have virtually no relevence to the
person, there family or history.

making them essentially meaningless.

Rick

PS I appologise to all ppl called Steve reading this who are neither gay or
a hairdresser, but on the other hand, I know 3 ppl called Steve who are..
strange..

> Well, yeah, "-ov" is one of the endings for a masculine noun in the
> genitive case (whatever is left if it anyway), like "-ev", "-ski",
> "-in", "-ich" etc. seen in Slavic names. As I've explained before,
> "Popov" literally means "of the priest's" (my grand-grand-dad was a
> priest and hence the family name). The "po-" prefix, on the other
> hand, indicates a comparative form of any adjective or adverb (or a
> noun used as an adjective or adverb, for that matter), so "po-pov"
> literally means "More POV", where POV acts as an adjective (POVving,
> POVed, POVish, POVely, POVable etc.)
> Fun :)
>
> ---------
> Peter Popov
> ICQ: 15002700

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