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Ukraine deploying their own Semen Legion
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this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2024
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I heard somewhere that Semen (the name) is basically a weird bastardization of Simon and also sort of freely translated from something that more closely resembles Semion. My source is whatever person on here that told me to stop laughing at Semen Hitler, who fought valiantly for the Red Army against the Nazis, since the only way to get his name was through some lingustic shennanigans.
Yes, it's version of Simon, and one of the more popular eastern Slavic names and as such have tons of versions. There is also old Polish word semen, meaning cossack in the court service - there were thousands of them so it might be how that particular version came to be - from the joining of name Simeon (Семён) and the occupation of court cossack.