Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional culture - What's the difference between Andrea in Italy and Andre in Ukraine?

What's the difference between Andrea in Italy and Andre in Ukraine?

The roots are the same.

The roots of many Slavic names (Russian, Ukrainian, etc. ) all evolved from Latin-Greek system, that is, from ancient Rome. They borrowed from Rome because the Eastern Slavs were deeply influenced by the Eastern Roman Empire and its Orthodox Church.

For example, Anton (a common name in Ukraine) is nothing more than "Anthony" of the ancient Romans, Alexander, and, of course, Alexander the Great, the founder of the Hellenistic Macedonian Empire.

I remember that the name Andre first came from French, but the ancestor of modern French is "Roman" (a language transformed from ancient Latin, the standard national language of the Romans), so French still belongs to "Latin-Roman family".

It is certain that the pronunciation is different. Italian has an a at the end. It seems that the pronunciation of a has not changed much in all European languages, while the spelling of Ukrainian, like Russian, ends with the short sound I.