You belong to the invincible family of Scythians and Sarmatians if your surname sounds like this
Surnames that indicate the Scythian and Sarmatian origin of the family. Source: thecollector.com
There are some Ukrainian surnames that mean that your ancestors came from the Scythians and Sarmatians. Here are some family names that indicate that your ancestors were direct descendants of nomads.
Which surnames indicate Scythian and Sarmatian origin
On his YouTube channel, Doctor of Geography, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Higher Education Petro Masliak explained that the ending "on" indicates the Scythian and Sarmatian origin of the surname. This is a group of such patrimonial names:
- Zavizion.
- Demidion.
- Arion.
- Folion.
- Farion.
There is another group of Ukrainian surnames, as the professor notes, that could also have this source of origin. These are patrimonial names associated with the word "peredraya", which means "Scythian overseas":
- Perediriy.
- Predrii.
- Perdrii.
- Pereriy.
- Perederiyenko.
- Perederiychuk.