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Yuriy Khotlyubyey (ukr Юрій Хотлюбєй) was the 2nd mayor of Mariupol. He is ethnically Urum (Greco-Turkic, native to Crimean Peninsula). According to Wiki, it's more commonly transcripted as Khotlubei in English. Does anyone know anything about this surname?
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The Khotlu- part reminds me of Kutlu:
https://www.behindthename.com/name/kutlu/submitted
https://www.behindthename.com/name/kutlu/submitted
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Kh in Ukrainian sounds like the Polish sound ch, so it is very different from k. It's still possibly but probably unlikely.
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Here, Eleuteria happens to be right and it is actually cognate. See here for an etymological tree of the reconstructed Proto-Turkic root *kut: https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fdata%2falt%2fturcet&text_number=1002. The listed form for Tatar is 'qot', but in the southern dialect of Crimean Tatar the /q/ sound becomes /x/, thus making it the exact sound we are looking for (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatar_language#Consonants).
The 'lu' part is a Turkic adjective-forming particle. Therefore, the meaning of this name is roughly "fortunate bey (chieftain)".
The 'lu' part is a Turkic adjective-forming particle. Therefore, the meaning of this name is roughly "fortunate bey (chieftain)".
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Thank you!
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I'd divide it as Khotlu-bey with bey (beg, bek, begh) being a Turkish title (approximately "chieftain", the title was inheritable). I pass on Khotlu.
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