Where does “Павлівна” come from?
Павлівна (Ukrainian) comes from Ukrainian Павло́, from Russian -о́вич, from Ukrainian -ов, from Russian -о́в, from Old East Slavic -овъ, from Proto-Slavic -ovъ — of, belonging to.
Ancestry of “Павлівна”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ukrainian | Павло́ | Paul, one of the twelve apostles |
| 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 |