was [SEELANGS] etymology, now: odd genealogies

[Jules Levin]

On 01.04.2014 14:40, Olia Prokopenko wrote:
> Oh goodness.The article about Putin's genealogy recalls a chapter in 
> Voinovich's /Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin/ about Chonkin being a 
> descendant of Prince Golitsyn (who was stationed in Chonkin's village 
> a year or more before Chonkin's birth).

There is also a suggestion that Stalin was the illegitimate son of the 
great Polish naturalist Przewalski, who supposedly briefly lodged in his 
maternal home briefly, at the right time.  (I think it was Przewalski, 
but it may have been another famous Siberian explorer and naturalist of 
Polish origin.)
There are supposedly 40 million descendents of Genghis Kahn in Northern 
China.  The power of 2... Two raised to the number of generations yields 
an enormous number.  So Putin may well be related to the royal families, 
which also gives him some Jewish ancestry, since supposedly Queen 
Isabella of Spain had a converso grandfather, and her grandson Charles V 
provided genetic material to all the European royal families.
Jules Levin (cousin to all)
Los Angeles




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> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Tony Brown <tony_brown at byu.edu 
> <mailto:tony_brown at byu.edu>> wrote:
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>     John,
>
>     In 2002, Pravda.ru published an article entitled: "The Mysterious
>     Genealogy of President Putin," which may be of interest to you.
>      You can
>     access the article using the following link:
>     http://english.pravda.ru/business/finance/05-11-2002/1528-putin-0/
>
>     Tony Brown
>
>     On 3/31/14 1:36 PM, "John Dingley" <jdingley43 at GMAIL.COM
>     <mailto:jdingley43 at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:
>
>     >Hi!
>     >
>     >Can someone enlighten me as to the etymology of the
>     >Russian family name Путин? Presumably one does not
>     >want to derive it from путь since путь is an
>     >original masculine -i stem noun (the only one to
>     >survive into Modern Russian) and one would expect
>     >*Путев, which is the case with other family names
>     >derived from masculine -i stems, e.g
>     >Медведев < медведь
>     >Зверев < зверь
>     >Голубев < голубь
>     >
>     >As a rule of thumb, the suffix -ин is used to form
>     >family names from nouns ending in -а/-я, e.g
>     >Воронин < ворона, Ленин < Лена and feminine
>     >-i stems, e.g. Сталин < сталь.  The suffix
>     >-ов/-ев being used elsewhere. This distribution
>     >betrays their possessive adjective origin.
>     >
>     >Unbegaun (p.161) explains Распутин as a nickname,
>     >where different formation rules apply.
>     >
>     >John Dingley
>     >
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