yeah, the cyrillic is дякон
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haha, and you are from czech... i swear my father's family has roots in the east... in the 18th century the dutch made a law everyone had to have a last name, and my great great great great Opa chose "vennik" which is russian for a bundle of sticks used as a sweeper, still in use today by the dutch street sweepers (and ironically, can be called a "faggot" which was a favourite insult from my australian child day prison fellow inmates)
small world ...
i don't have any hard evidence about my hypothesis but there is pretty much only one language with the word Vennik in it... there is close and similar ones in Ukraine as well, one meaning "wreath" and the other meaning "brandy brewer"
being that my opa was a hospital orderly and so was my dad, i'm betting that my father's line is a line of cleaners
also, i am distantly related to Mihail Lermontov... via a side branch way back in my mother's line
(scottish guy, famous poet, emigrated to russia)
Vennik is not a czech word, though ...
no, i meant Russian... i'm pretty sure it's russian
i had a gf back in 2003 who was half czech... honey golden hair, the most adorable cheeks and sharp as a whip, oh yeah, and she had a warrior's physique, as a masseuse she could nearly rip your shoulders out
yes, the double N is not part of it, but that's not a common construct in russian, yes, it exists, but no it's not that common
in dutch, however, the phonetic rules state that you have to double a consonant to "close" a syllable, and there is other similar rules about doubling vowels to indicate an accent or long vowel form
many people in the netherlands adopted "funny" names, one i encountered while i lived there was "diepenbrook" - brook means "pants" and "diepen" is the adjective meaning "deep" ... there is NO way the originator of that name was not having a laff at the dutch government with that one back in the 1700s
my opa did quite a bit of research and wrote a little leaflet about the history of the family name and the conclusion was he had no evidence about where it came from exactly, and the scuttlebutt in the family was that there was a connection to some kind of disgrace involving dutch aristocracy and the Buys (like Boise) family
also, i wouldn't be surprised if it is not in fact from russia today russia but it is even possible it's Russene, the landless ethnic group found across northern serbia and romania, their form of russian is archaic russian, not revised like the modern russian as so many governments did all across europe "standardising" the languages