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Lutak (surname)

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Lutak (Rusyn: Лутак, Slovak: Lutak, Ukrainian: Лутак, Hungarian: Luták) is a Rusyn, Slovak and Ukrainian surname.

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Meaning

Versions of Zakarpattia philologist Pavlo Chuchka:

  1. From South Slavic ancestor's male name Luta using a suffix -ak as patronymic one. Luta is a variant of the official Serbo-Croatian names Milutin and Milun.
  2. From the Serbian noun lutak- "doll"(masculine),"children's toy in the form of a man".
  3. From Boyko or Old Polish measure of weight łut

Origin

Probably, surname Lutak originated in the early 17th century in the northern regions of the Kingdom of Hungary, where the majority of the population were Rusyns, Slovaks, Croats, Vlachs and Serbs.

Notable people

  • Medveczkyné Luták Edit (born 1932), Soviet, Ukrainian and Hungarian artist of decorative and applied arts, painter, graphic artist.
  • Ivan Kondratyevich Lutak (1919 — 2009), Soviet party leader, First Secretary the Cherkasy Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

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