Ryska Pevitsa

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Name Inspiration

• Russian... singer/performer...

Given Name

• Ryska (f) -- "lynx." Ryska, second wife of Vatslav. 1297. [Khr 262] - from Wickenden 2nd edition

Byname/Surname

Pevitsa - fem. singer (masc. is pevets) - simple descriptive occupational byname.

• Documentation of that naming pattern below.
• Word documented to period (1499) in Словар Русского Языка XI-XIVII вв. - http://etymolog.ruslang.ru/index.php?act=xi-xvii
  • Dictionary quotes from II Chronicles 35: 24-5 - And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him, Jeremiah still more, and also all the singers (masc. pl.) and singers (fem. pl.) to him grieved for Josiah..."

Examples of simple descriptive occupational bynames:

• Kuznets (m) -- "smith." Klementii Kuznets Sestorikov. 1466. [Tup 214]
• Kozhevnik (m) -- "currier." Mikei Vasil'ev syn Kozhevnik. 1573. [RIB II 93]
• Pirozhnikov (m) -- "pie maker." Ofonas Pirozhnik, craftsman. 1599. [Tup 304]
• Plotnik (m) -- "carpenter." Plotnik. 1371. [Mor 152]

All above from Wickenden 2nd edition.

Occupational Bynames in Medieval Russia by Paul Wickenden of Thanet - http://www.goldschp.net/archive/jobnames.html#music

• Pevtsova - expected feminine form of Pevstov - Singer (1545) [266]
• Domracheeva - expected feminine form of Domracheev - Player, domra (a stringed instrument) (1570) [72]

Combination

• Name elements are in the same language group.
• Name elements are well within 500 years of each other.