A person wearing one or another surname sooner or later thinks about its history. Below we consider what are the versions of the origin of the names of Baranov.
First hypothesis
This hypothesis is based on a worldly name.Baran, known from documentary sources of the XIII century. The explanation for this lies in the following tradition: before the adoption of the Christian faith in Russia, the child was named with the name that represented the name of any animal, a plant.
For an old Russian man living inaccording to nature, it was commonplace to present oneself as a part of it. Therefore, referring to the boy as the Wolf, the girl as Belka, the parents hoped that nature would take the baby as her own, and he would have those useful qualities that are characteristic of the elected representative.
It is a fact that since ancient times a ram was personified withmasculine strength. In the old days it was believed that the blood of this animal serves as a transmitter to a person of vital force. We gave the first version of the history of the name Baranov.
Second hypothesis
She pushes off from the nickname. Guess it is easy - Baran. Most likely, it was assigned to a stubborn and intractable person. Recall, our goal is to clarify the origin of the name of Baranov. It is also known about the variants of the meanings of a given word, depending on its belonging to one or another dialect or a dialect of the Russian language. It could be about:
- The ancient battering ram, a kind of battering ram.
- The bow and stern of the ship at the coast.
- Rode sled.
- Sliding oven view.
- Well gate.
- Hanging clay washstand.
Specifically, to clarify which of the listed interpretations turned out to be the basis of the nickname, and later - the names, to date there is no possibility.
Continuation of a story
By the period of the XV – XVI centuries in Russia belongconsolidation and transfer from one generation to another surnames, which meant that the person belongs to a particular family. If we recall the rules of the Russian language, then we are dealing with possessive adjectives with suffixes –Ov / -e, -inthat originally pointed to the father's nickname. Thus, speaking of the origin of the name of Baranov, one can understand why the descendants of a man, called Baran, were entrenched with this name.
The pedigrees of the letters say that the genusBaranovs consisted of two branches: the Swedish-Estland titled (the ancestor Karl Gustav von Baranov (Barangof) and the Russian non-titled, more numerous (the ancestor Murza Zhdan).
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