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Kurlov Coat of Arms / Kurlov Family CrestThis Russian surname was a given name from the ancient Greek word KYRILOS meaning Lord. It was the Latin equivalent of Dominique. This was the name borne by a 9th century missionary to the Slavs who, together with his companion Methodius, first translated biblical and liturgical texts into Old Slavonic. No Slavonic language has previously been written down, and so the two men devised their own system of transcription, based on the Greek alphabet. This remains the basis of the modern Cyrillic scripts. This name was not in use in the West during the Middle Ages, and surnames derived from it are confined to Eastern Europe. Russian surnames are almost exclusively patronymic (occasionally metronymic) in form, usually ending in 'ov' or 'ev'. Habitation and topographic names are rare, and many common Russian surnames are polygenetic, and their literal meaning is clear, even though the reason for their adoption may not be. When the first immigrants from Europe went to America, the only names current in the new land were Indian names which did not appeal to Europeans vocally, and the Indian names did not influence the surnames or Christian names already possessed by the immigrants. Mostly the immigrant could not read or write and had little or no knowledge as to the proper spelling, and their names suffered at the hands of the government officials. The early town records are full of these misspelled names most of which gradually changed back to a more conventional spelling as education progressed. It has long been a matter of doubt when the bearing of coats of arms first became hereditary and it was not until the Crusades that Heraldry came into general use. Men went into battle heavily armed and were difficult to recognise. It became the custom for them to adorn their helmets with distinctive crests, and to paint their shields with animals and the like. Coats of arms accompanied the development of surnames, becoming hereditary in the same way. Most of the European surnames were formed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The process had started somewhat earlier and had continued in some places into the 19th century, but the norm is that in the tenth and eleventh centuries people did not have surnames, whereas by the fifteenth century most of the population had acquired a second name. |
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