Where does “Shostakovichian” come from?
Shostakovichian (English) comes from English ian, from Irish Eoin, from Old Irish Iohain, from Latin Iōannēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης, from Hebrew יוחנן, from Hebrew חנון, from Moroccan Arabic خنونة.
Shostakovichian (English): Of or relating to Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian: Дми́трий Шостако́вич; 1906–1975), Soviet composer and pianist
Definitions
- Of or relating to Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian: Дми́трий Шостако́вич; 1906–1975), Soviet composer and pianist
Ancestry of “Shostakovichian”, step by step
Shostakovichian traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English ian
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ian | — |
| 2 | Irish | Eoin | John any of several people in the Bible |
| 3 | Old Irish | Iohain | John apostle |
| 4 | Latin | Iōannēs | John biblical persons |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | Ἰωάννης | — |
| 6 | Hebrew | יוחנן | Yahweh is gracious |
| 7 | Hebrew | חנון | gracious, merciful, compassionate; passive... |
| 8 | Moroccan Arabic | خنونة | mucus, snot |
| 9 | Arabic | خُنَّة | — |
via English Shostakovich
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Shostakovich | — |
| 2 | Russian | Шостакович | particularly Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer and pianist |
| 3 | Russian | -о́вич | A masculine patronymic suffix added to a given name ending in a hard (unpalatalized) consonant: son of |
| 4 | Ukrainian | -ов | — |
| 5 | Russian | -о́в | Genitive plural desinence of most hard-stem masculine nouns |
| 6 | Old East Slavic | -овъ | — |
| 7 | Proto-Slavic | -ovъ | of, belonging to |