Meaning & origin
How it developed
Its Slavonic formation brings together vele (“great”) and slav (“glory”).
Wielisław’s family of names
Wielisław has an affectionate form in Vela. Wielisław shares a linguistic root with Veleslav. Wielisław has a related form in Wieslaw.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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