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Thread #20928   Message #220615
Posted By: Sourdough
01-May-00 - 12:25 AM
Thread Name: Help: Russian vocabulary
Subject: RE: Help: Russian vocabulary
Thank you for your translation. Perhaps you could go a bit further. Is there a Russian surname that would translate to "Greenfield".

There was a Dr. Garfield who played a very signifcant role in US medical history. His father was from the Ukraine and the family name, according to their family lore, was originally the Russian for Green Field. Do Russian names translate the same way that many Western European names do, into trade and place names? If so, what would Greenfield be? Zel-yo-noy-yeah Pole-yea does not sound like a surname.

I am writing a biography of the man and would like to uncover a good possibility of what the original name was.

Sourdough