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origin of the name biljana
by biljana petrevska (guest)
5/27/2005, 11:19 AM
does anyone know the origin of my name 'biljana'?
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- Ivayla   +8
5/27/2005, 1:03 PM
Biljana is derived from the Slavic bil - herb~ IvaylaI am an angel, honest! The horns are there just to keep the halo straight.
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- biljana (guest)   +7
5/27/2005, 2:55 PM
thanks so much! now to find out what my last name means:S lol
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- Ivayla   +6
5/27/2005, 3:27 PM
Re:It means "descendant of Petre", Petre being a south Slavic (Macedonian?) form of Peter.~ IvaylaI am an angel, honest! The horns are there just to keep the halo straight.
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- biljana (guest)   +5
5/27/2005, 4:21 PM
Re:hmm i checked and it says 'petar' is the macedonian form of peter..b/c petre is teh romanian form of peter. but thanks for the help:D
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- Ivayla   +4
5/27/2005, 4:44 PM
Yes, but...-evska is a Slavic ending especially popular in Macedonia; and Romanians are not Slavic. Besides, Romanian last names generally end in -iu or -escu. And if the ancestor was named Petar, the name would be Petrovska. I am willing to bet that Petre is some dialect form of Petar.~ IvaylaI am an angel, honest! The horns are there just to keep the halo straight.
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- biljana (guest)   +3
5/28/2005, 4:13 PM
yeah i know romainian's arent slavic... and i asked my mom and she confirmed that petre is a macedonian name. im not sure about the spelling. it could be wrong...but yeah the important thing is i found out that petre is our version of peter.
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- Alena   +2
5/28/2005, 7:08 PM
Petre is RomanianPetre is Romanian form of Peter and Petru is Romanian Corsican The last name looks Macedonian to me also. Romanians are referred to as Slavic but they aren't

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- Ivayla   +1
5/28/2005, 11:37 PM
Hmmm...I don't know who "we Romanians" are, but the inhabitants of the country of Romania are Dacian, not Baltic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Romanians~ IvaylaI am an angel, honest! The horns are there just to keep the halo straight.
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- Alena
5/29/2005, 12:25 AM
Your absolutly right Romanians are Dacians. The country is often referred to as Slavic or Balkans which it isn't either one. It's just an eastern european country right I'm Romanian and Bulgarian Roma on my father's side. The family name was Simeonescu before it was changed to Sims. Are you an eastern european?

This message was edited 5/29/2005, 2:12 AM

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