English Explanatory Dictionary

Medvid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Medvid Medvids Medwid Medved

Etymology

As a Carpathian Rusyn and Ukrainian surname, from медвідь (medvidʹ), from Proto-Slavic *medvědь (“bear”). Also found as a Serbo-Croatian variant of Medved, of the same meaning. Compare Medwid.

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