B.-O. Unbegaun, Russkie familii (Moscow, 1989)

Chapter 1. The Name 5

1. ◈ S201, p. 186 paragraph 27 →

   …and the dates agree. B.-O. Unbegaun explains that glagol is the Church Slavonic name of the letter G […] — the letter with which Sergey Sergeyevich’s real surname begins.

2. ◈ S201, p. 128 paragraph 28 →

   …different roots. Goloushin, according to Unbegaun, comes from Golovushin (compare golovushka, “little head”) […]; Goloushev, according to Yu.A. Fedosyuk, from goloushy — said of a man cropped so short that his hair did…

3. ◈ S201 paragraph 29 →

   …names (1903); I.M. Ganzhina’s dictionary of modern Russian surnames (2001) has not yet been available to us […]. Nor have we found in the Donskie dela, in Tupikov or in Veselovsky anyone surnamed Kalaushin or Koloushin,…

4. ◈ S201, p. 26 paragraph 30 →

   …in -in are usually formed from words ending in -a/-ya (Borodin from boroda, “beard”; Ilyin from Ilya) […]: from the masculine kalaush one would rather expect Kalaushev, and from the feminine kalaushka Kalaushkin,…

5. ◈ S201, p. 128 paragraph 34 →

   …kalaushit. Surnames in -ushin with the suffix -ush- do exist (Malushin, Radushin, Gorbushin, Khvastushin) […], but no suitable first name with the stem Kala-/Kolo- has been found: Kolusha (from Nikolay) would have…