Vuk (name)
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vuk-name-205-9429235
title:
Vuk (name)
text:
Vuk is a male Slavic given name, predominantly recorded among Serbs as well as Croatians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Slovenes. The name literally means "wolf". Vuk Karadžić, 19th-century Serbian philologist and ethnographer, explained the traditional, apotropaic use of the name: a woman who had lost several babies in succession would name her newborn son Vuk because it was believed that the witches, who "ate" the babies, were afraid to attack the wolves. In the Serbian epic poetry, the wolf is a
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Name list
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_(name)
date created:
2008-07-24T08:47:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T08:05:29Z
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