Medved

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from the Slavic languages.

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""Medved" means "bear" in the beautiful Russian language."

Etymology

As a Slovene, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Jewish, Slovak, and Czech (Medvěd) surname, all from common Slavic for bear, from Proto-Slavic *medvědь (“bear”). Compare Nedved. Also sometimes Americanized from Russian patronymic Medvedev, of the same meaning.

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