Suvakovic

English translation: left-handed

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Bosnian term or phrase:Suvak
English translation:left-handed

12:08 Sep 9, 2004
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Bosnian term or phrase: Suvakovic
That'a my family name, it is Bosnian or Serbian or Croat, and I'm interested in it's meaning.
Thank you!
Andrea Suvak
left-handed
Explanation:
shuvak: left-handed
serbian and croat dictionary (we don't use that word, it must be very old)
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ljilja
Local time: 21:25
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Thank you very much! The pronounciation is with Sh (Shuvak), and a long a (á).
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left-handed


Explanation:
shuvak: left-handed
serbian and croat dictionary (we don't use that word, it must be very old)

ljilja
Local time: 21:25
Native speaker of: Native in Serbo-CroatSerbo-Croat
Grading comment
Thank you very much! The pronounciation is with Sh (Shuvak), and a long a (á).

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  BUZOV: Bravo Ljilje ! I thought nobody anymore remembers that ANCIENT meaning ... svaka čast ! But that is just one of of options ... There's SUVAK also - as DRY ... Let Andrea provides the pronunciation (uvijek me speling zeza na ovoj riječi :-) )
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Explanation:
It’s not easy to sort family names by nations !

Who’s are family names : LACKOVITS (children of a man named Lacko = Ladislav)
Or: KOVACS (Smith, Blacksmith)

Hungarian ? Or Croatian ?

Or one of the most common ‘Hungarian’ family names => HORVATH …(= ‘a Croat’)

Serbian or Bosnian or Croatian … there are some family names everyvhere:
MARIĆ, for example … MILOŠEVIĆ … ŽIVKOVIĆ …. etc…
Serbian or Croatian ?
BOTH !

And similar … this question requires a serious investigation ….

My own family name can be traced among Moravians (now Chech Republic), Hazars (contemporary Azerbaydzan), Bulgars, Russians … all the way to the toponims at Ural Mountains and in the Middle East … :-)

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SUVAKOVIC (with a pure “S” doesn’t exist in the Croatian Phone Book)

At http://www.htnet.hr/fset.html TELEFONSKI IMENIK (White Pages) there are 23 in Croatia … majority of them in Slavonija … which could be an indication … since it was the same state with Hungary for some 800 years … 1102 – 1918.
Here they are:

01. GOGA PARFUMERIJA I FRIZERSKI SALON VL. ŠUVAKOVIĆ OLGA Pula, Sergijevaca 43 (052) 217 159
02. ŠUVAKOVIĆ BRANKO Pula, Bačićev prilaz 13 (052) 505 553
03. ŠUVAKOVIĆ DARKO Zaprešić, Ljudevita Gaja 44 (01) 3311 945
04. ŠUVAKOVIĆ DRAŽEN Lupoglav (098) 9143 720
05. ŠUVAKOVIĆ FRANJO Aljmaš, Podunavlje 20 (031) 595 045
06. ŠUVAKOVIĆ IVAN Cerna (098) 9638 102
07. ŠUVAKOVIĆ IVAN Cerna, Kneza Domagoja 68B (032) 843 288
08. ŠUVAKOVIĆ IVAN Cerna, Velika Cerna 100 (032) 843 815
09. ŠUVAKOVIĆ JAKOB Lipovac, Braće Radića 55 (032) 270 070
10. ŠUVAKOVIĆ JOSIP Bebrina, Bebrina 100 (035) 433 304
11. ŠUVAKOVIĆ LJUBOMIR Osijek, Vij. I. Meštrovića 1B (031) 208 958
12. ŠUVAKOVIĆ MARA Aljmaš, Trg braće Radića 20 (031) 595 218
13. ŠUVAKOVIĆ MILIJANA Peroj, Peroj 237 (052) 521 708
14. ŠUVAKOVIĆ OLGA, FRIZERSKI SALON Pula, Sergijevaca 43 (052) 217 159
15. ŠUVAKOVIĆ PETAR Lipovac (098) 348 167
16. ŠUVAKOVIĆ PETAR Lipovac, Braće Radića 56 (032) 270 166
17. ŠUVAKOVIĆ PETAR Lipovac, I.L. Ribara 13D (032) 270 120
18. ŠUVAKOVIĆ PETAR Vinkovci, A.G. Matoša 36 (032) 369 601
19. ŠUVAKOVIĆ RADOSLAV Aljmaš, Zlatna 70 (031) 595 217
20. ŠUVAKOVIĆ RUŽICA Osijek, Sjenjak 36 (031) 573 709
21. ŠUVAKOVIĆ STJEPAN Osijek, Lj. Posavskog 26 (031) 300 236
22. ŠUVAKOVIĆ STJEPAN Zagreb, Ante Jakšića 28 (01) 2435 250
23. ŠUVAKOVIĆ ZLATA Vinkovci (098) 751 309

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Serbian Telephone Directory should be checked at http://www.telekom.yu/SiteTelekom/Default.htm …

SARAJEVO.NET provides the phone books for entire ex-Yugoslavia at:
http://www.sarajevo.net/bihweblinks.html
TELEFONSKI IMENICI
TELEFONSKI IMENIK Federacije BIH BH Telecom
TELEFONSKI IMENIK Republike Srpske
TELEFONSKI IMENIK SLOVENIJE
TELEFONSKI IMENIK SRBIJE
TELEFONSKI IMENIK HRVATSKE
TELEFONSKI IMENIK CRNE GORE
TELEF0NSKI IMENIK MAKEDONIJE

Further ========
http://www.superbosna.com/index.php?option=com_imenik&Itemid...
gives 1 person in Sarajevo:

Prezime i ime Telefon Adresa
ŠUVAKOVIĆ TIMOTIJE 033 642971 BEHDŽETA MUTEVELIĆA 117 SARAJEVO SARAJEVO

And so on …

GOOGLE places family name ŠUVAKOVIĆ in: Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia …

In this form, the root could be LEFT-HANDED … “ić”-suffix designates ‘small’ or ‘children of’ a left handed man …

Again, a specialist is needed for more precise defition.


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Note added at 1 day 11 hrs 36 mins (2004-09-10 23:44:49 GMT)
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http://www.htnet.hr/fset.html

Surname: ŠUVAK - Rezultati 1-10 od ukupno 105 za upit Šuvak
(Results 1-10 out of 105 phone numbers registered in Croatia.

For example:

05. ŠUVAK ANDREA Rijeka (098) 523 736
06. ŠUVAK ANDREA Virovitica, Antuna Augustinčića 109 (033) 727 556
07. ŠUVAK ANDREJ Viljevo, V. Nazora 43 (031) 644 474
08. ŠUVAK ANDRIJA Vinkovci, I. Mažuranića 20 (032) 309 070
09. ŠUVAK ANITA Rijeka (098) 9711 413
10. ŠUVAK ANITA Virovitica (098) 9468 839


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