Where does “Tolstoevsky” come from?
Tolstoevsky (English) comes from English Tolstoy, from Russian Толсто́й, from Russian то́лстый, from Russian -щина — Suffix added to stems to show that it is a collective or a condition; -hood, -dom, -ness, -ism.
Tolstoevsky (English): The Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky; their respective oeuvres considered as a single corpus
Definitions
- The Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky; their respective oeuvres considered as a single corpus
Ancestry of “Tolstoevsky”, step by step
Tolstoevsky traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Tolstoy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Tolstoy | — |
| 2 | Russian | Толсто́й | particularly Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, September 9, 1828 — November 20, 1910 |
| 3 | Russian | то́лстый | stout |
| 4 | Russian | -щина | Suffix added to stems to show that it is a collective or a condition; -hood, -dom, -ness, -ism |
via English Dostoevsky
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Dostoevsky | — |
| 2 | Russian | Достое́вский | — |