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| | Zoological Bynames in Medieval Russia |
 | | A similar problem occurred with the modern word, lastochka (swallow) from which the surname Lastochkin is derived. |
 | | Two period variations of the word (lastovitsa and lastun), however, exist. |
 | | Far more interesting (for a herald or an onomast, but probably not to someone trying to document a name) were the large number of fairly common birds whose names turned out to be post-period (or, at least, whose names could be documented only to post-period). |
| www.goldschp.net /archive/zoonames.html (2407 words) |
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