translation request

[David Erschler]

The second letter could also be the jat' (Ѣ).

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Catherine Rudin <carudin1 at wsc.edu> wrote:

> I think the letter I wrote as z is actually a cyrillic "ch" -- sjirche.
> Someone suggested it might be "svirche", but aside from having no reason to
> think whistles are involved, the second letter is pretty clearly a soft
> sign, not a cyrillic "v".  Who knows.
>
> Anyhow, it's two names, and I doubt we'll get much beyond that...
>
> >>> "Anthony Grant" <Granta at edgehill.ac.uk> 10/31/10 12:29 PM >>>
>
> The first name appears to be a form or spelling of Evdokiya, a widespread
> Orthdox women's name.
>
> Could the sjirze be some form of the Slavic root for 'heart' which is
> serdce in Russian and srce in Serbian?
>
> Best
>
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>
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