Nicholas Tarasenko - English Sumo Hopeful

[RabidJohn 2,069]

2 hours ago, Bunbukuchagama said:

Nicholas is likely to be an Anglicized version of Russian Николай or Ukrainian Микола. 

Nicholas and variants of it are common throughout Europe. There were several at school with me in the UK.

And Wikipedia tells me it comes from ancient Greek, cognate with Νικόλαος in modern Greek.

[Gospodin 268]

Interesting side chat. It still amazes me when millenia-years old roots can be found everywhere.

[RabidJohn 2,069]

1 hour ago, Gospodin said:

Interesting side chat. It still amazes me when millenia-years old roots can be found everywhere.

They are everywhere. You might like this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@WordsUnravelled

[Reonito 1,782]

Took me a while to realize that Esteban was the Spanish version of Stephen. And don't get me started on all the forms of John (including, of course, Ivan, while we're on Slavic names).

[Bunbukuchagama 975]

11 hours ago, RabidJohn said:

Nicholas and variants of it are common throughout Europe. There were several at school with me in the UK.

And Wikipedia tells me it comes from ancient Greek, cognate with Νικόλαος in modern Greek.

This is correct; my speculation is based on his parents' ethnic origins.

[Bunbukuchagama 975]

4 hours ago, Reonito said:

Took me a while to realize that Esteban was the Spanish version of Stephen. And don't get me started on all the forms of John (including, of course, Ivan, while we're on Slavic names).

It took me a while to realize that Reonito = Leonid. 

[Jakusotsu 6,392]

Even my own first name is based on Νικόλαος , to veer that thread even more off topic.

[Koorifuu 1,120]

18 hours ago, Bunbukuchagama said:

It took me a while to realize that Reonito = Leonid. 

TIL! I'd noticed fashiriteetaa = facilitator, but not that.

Still, presuming that Nicholas really is a British citizen born in the UK, it's perfectly likely that his first name really is Nicholas.

Edited August 16 by Koorifuu

[Stelios 32]

And since Tarasenko comes from Taras which is the Russian/Ukranian equivalent of the medieval Greek name Ταράσιος (Tarasios), Nicholas Tarasenko is definitely Greek :-p

[krindel 688]

Or (in the off chance someone is actually interested) we could look through his interviews a bit and discover he has his Latvian mother's last name while his father is Russian Estonian ;-). 

[Kintamayama 47,226]

Father Estonian, Geiorgi Zilkin. I'm getting some Homarenishiki vibes. Hopefully I'm wrong.

26 minutes ago, krindel said:

Or (in the off chance someone is actually interested) we could look through his interviews a bit and discover he has his Latvian mother's last name while his father is Russian Estonian ;-). 

 

[Octofuji 431]

3 hours ago, krindel said:

Or (in the off chance someone is actually interested) we could look through his interviews a bit and discover he has his Latvian mother's last name while his father is Russian Estonian ;-). 

Amateur philology* is more fun, especially in between bashos.

* "A science where the vowels count for nothing, and the consonants very little"

[Bunbukuchagama 975]

5 hours ago, Kintamayama said:

Geiorgi Zilkin

Георгий Зилкин? A proper Russian name.