Naming
Initially, the Belarusian noble people were called bajary (Belarusian: баяры) (on the territory of what is now Republic of Lithuania the word bajorai was used).
After passing of the Horodło privileges along with the word bajary the term bajary-szlachta (баяры-шляхта) or simply szlachta (шляхта) was used in documentation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that was predominantly written in Old Belarusian language. In 15th-16th centuries nobility in Polesia or Podlacha was also often called ziamianie (зямяне). Since the second quarter of 16th century the word szlachta (шляхта) became the dominant Belarusian term for noble people.
Read more about this topic: Belarusian Nobility
Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)