Question by goauldstink: what does the Russian name Medvedev mean?
I know a medved is a bear, but is this something like “bear baiter” ? I know that was popular in Russia once.
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Answer by Costin
Medvedev (Russian: Медведев) and female Medvedeva (Медведева), from Russian medved’ , meaning the animal “bear”, are Russian surnames.
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My Shadow says
medved is bear and "ev" is added at the end is just mean that it is surname. Almost all of Russian surname have something like "ev", "ov" etc at the end. Sorry for illegible English.
AngryCat says
Laterally it means "bear's" or bear's son. Like Ivanov actually means "son of Ivan".
It doesn't actually mean that the surname started with some animal. It just means that the starter of the family line had an animalistic nickname and they were popular in Medieval Russia (Wolf, Hare, Hawk and such)
Olivia knows somethi says
It means that his father was Medvedev, too :)))
j_n_laerasyn says
I know medved means bear…
You may find this useful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medvedev
Amanda S says
it doesn`t mean anything. as you already said, medved in russian means bear. medvedev doesn`t mean anything. 😉