User:Kolchinsky

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KOLCHINSKY. Jewish origin family hypothetically from the town of Kolki in Western Ukraine. According to the linguistic process of alternation -Č (ch) will change to -K for the sake of the linguistic economy. Thus adjective kolKinsky would transform to kolCHinsky. In both cases, according to the hypothesis, Kolchinsky means "the one from Kolki". [1]. If one goes a little further with the assumptions there is a possible way through which Jews came to the Volyn territories of Ukraine and at that time Lithuanian knyaz Vitovt allowed karaim jews from Crimea to settle in the region of Volyn including Kolki [2]. Kolki per se were mentioned on 1500 as the town founded by the Radzyvil dynasty. In old slavic language, according to Dal's dictionary of the Russian language, "колок" -- "отдельная рощица, лесок или лесной остров" - separate piece of wood, small wood or a group of trees.