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Avetisyan Surname Meaning

Armenian: patronymic from the eastern Armenian personal name Avetis derived from the Christian term awetik ‘good news’ (i.e. ‘the Gospel’)

a calque on the Greek word euangelos and the name Euangelos (see Evangelista).

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Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022


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