polish surnames

JakubikF   Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:10 pm GMT
Rybicki - If you want to know how to pronounce your last name in polish, give me your e-mail, please. I could record you the sound of your surname (I'm polish native speaker) and sent you it
Vicky   Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:36 pm GMT
Hi! I'm from Argentina, currently living in Spain, but my grandparents were both Ukrainian though they were from Galitzia in Poland... Anyway, I've always been curious about the pronounciation of my last name: Wasyleczko (if it is spelled ok, because many immigrants lost a few letters on their arrival to Argentina...). Could anyone help me please? I been told that it sounds like: Vaseletsko... or Vaseletski....
cornu   Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:04 pm GMT
in polish it would be : Vasilechko
"y" it's a sound present in slavic, in romanian, i've heard that in welsh too
"ch" you speak it hard, as in english, not in spanish
accent falls on "ech"
it can have some connection with the name Vasyl which is greek "Basyleus"
Vicky   Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:40 pm GMT
Thank you so much! You've been really helpful!