Where does “Shostakovich” come from?
Shostakovich (English) comes from Russian Шостакович, from Russian -о́вич, from Ukrainian -ов, from Russian -о́в, from Old East Slavic -овъ, from Proto-Slavic -ovъ — of, belonging to.
Ancestry of “Shostakovich”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | Шостакович | particularly Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer and pianist |
| 2 | Russian | -о́вич | A masculine patronymic suffix added to a given name ending in a hard (unpalatalized) consonant: son of |
| 3 | Ukrainian | -ов | — |
| 4 | Russian | -о́в | Genitive plural desinence of most hard-stem masculine nouns |
| 5 | Old East Slavic | -овъ | — |
| 6 | Proto-Slavic | -ovъ | of, belonging to |