Given name · Russian
Елисей
“My God is salvation”
Елисей (Jeliséj) is a masculine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Russian.
RussianWritten in Cyrillic script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Елисей goes back to Biblical Hebrew אֱלִישָׁע (ʾĕlîšāʿ), meaning “My God is salvation.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Елисей comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Russian usage, Елисей developed from Ἐλισσαῖος.
Елисей’s family of names
In Russian usage, Елисей developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἐλισσαῖος.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Eliseoequivalent
- Elishaequivalent
- Yelyseiequivalent
- Élyséeequivalent
- Єлисейequivalent
- Eliseuequivalent
- Елисе́йhas masculine form
- Ἐλισσαῖοςroot · Ancient Greek
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People named Елисей
- Elisæus of AlbaniaAlbanian saint1–1
- Elisha Lavrishevsky1300–1250
- Yelisey Goryachev1892–1938
- Yelyseiborn 1973
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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