Yury

Yury, Yuri, Youri, Yurii, Yuriy, Yurij, Iurii or Iouri is the Slavic (Ukrainian: Юрій, romanized: Jurij, or Russian: Юрий, romanized: Jurij, or Bulgarian: Юрий, romanized: Jurij, or Belarusian: Юры, romanized: Jury) form of the masculine given name George; it is derived directly from the Greek form Georgios and related to Polish Jerzy, Brazilian Portuguese Iury, Spanish and Portuguese Jorge, Dutch Joeri, Czech Jiří and German Jürgen.

Yury
Yuri Dolgorukiy, Grand Prince of Kyiv
PronunciationRussian: [ˈjʉrʲɪj], Ukrainian pronunciation: [ˈjur⁽ʲ⁾ij]
Gendermasculine
Language(s) Slavic
Origin
Word/nameGeorgios
Other names
Alternative spellingYuri, Youri, Yuriy, Yurij, Iurii, Iouri, Juri
Variant form(s)Georgy, Yegor

The Slavic form of the name originates with Yuriy Dolgorukiy, Grand Prince of Kyiv (c. 1099–1157), in early accounts recorded as Gyurgi, Dyurgi. Yaroslav the Wise, great-grandfather of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, was the first Ruthenian ruler whose patron saint was Saint George. The saint is now depicted on the coat of arms of Moscow.

People named Yuri in other cultures
gollark: What?
gollark: Trump will probably worsen it. I don't think he understands maths at all in any case.
gollark: My laptop mostly works with it, except the SD card reader doesn't work for some reason. Also the fingerprint sensor and smartcard reader but I have no idea what to do with them anyway.
gollark: Unsupported hardware.
gollark: If you just blindly copy-paste stuff into the terminal to do things, you will have Problems™.

See also
  • All pages with titles beginning with Yury
  • All pages with titles beginning with Yuri
  • Igor (given name)

References
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