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[Opinions] Re: Khmelnytskyy's kids names
I immediately like Tymish, on its own or as a nn for Tymofiy.
The way I'm hearing Stepanyda in my head is really pretty.
Ostap looks interesting. I want to like it, but I just can't land on a pronunciation that sounds natural.
I prefer Yuri and Lena over Yuriy and Olena, but they're probably completely separate names.

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Tymish I think is a Polish inspired Tymofiy or something like that. Stepanyda I don't know how they said then (Khmelnytskyy was around in the 1500s and 1600s) but currently it's said like ste-pah-NI-dah in Ukraine. Ostap is pronounced oh-STAHP. Lena can be short for Olena pronounced LEH-nah. The Olenas that I know, none of them use Lena as their preferred short name but I know that they have been called Lena before. Yuri is either an alternate transcription of Yuriy or an unrelated Japanese girls name. I spell it Yuriy because there is a y sound at the end of the name that I feel like Yuri transcription doesn't acknowledge.

This message was edited 1/31/2025, 4:34 AM