Save Gender Masculine Usage Ukrainian Scripts Хведір(Ukrainian) Pronounced Pron. KHVE-deer [key] Other Forms FormsKhved (Хведь) Meaning & History Phonetical variant of Fedir. Since /f/ was not used in Ukrainian until the introduction of Christianity, it was, and still sometimes is corrupted to /kh/+/v/. Khvedir Vovk was an antropologist and ethnographist.