Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 094

Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 094

This report is available at http://www.s-gabriel.org/094

This is one of the Academy's earliest reports. We are not confident that these early reports are accurate. Please use it with caution.

Greetings,

The name "Oksana" is Ukrainian. It is a variant of the name "Kseniya," which itself derives from the Greek name "Xenia." The earliest form of the name we found was "Oksin'ia," used in 1285. The ' in that name is the representation of a mark that isn't spoken but is used in the Cyrillic alphabet used by Ukranian, Russian, and other Slavic languages.

You can see a diagram of the Cyrillic alphabet which shows the sounds of the Cyrillic letters originally used for these names, at

http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/cyrillic/russian.alphabet.html

Alan Terlep
Academy of St. Gabriel