Proto-Slavic origin
Source-reportedMeaning: “good, right” + “warrior”
Derived from Proto-Slavic *dobrъ (“good, right”) + *vojь (“warrior”).
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- Wiktionary: DobrovojCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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“good, right” + “warrior”
Language context for this entry: Old Czech
/ˈdobrovoj/ · Old Czech (15ᵗʰ CE)
01 / Meaning & origin
Dobrovoj is a masculine given name documented in Old Czech. English Wiktionary traces it to Proto-Slavic, from the components “good, right” + “warrior”.
Meaning: “good, right” + “warrior”
Derived from Proto-Slavic *dobrъ (“good, right”) + *vojь (“warrior”).
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DOBROVOJ— “good warrior”
Words signifying goodness are far from uncommon in this class of nomenclature. _Dobry_, good, has a worthy family. Dobrija, sometimes called Dobrowka, was the Bohemian princess whose marriage, like those of Clotilda, Bertha, and Anna, brought religion into her new country. Her husband, Miczslav, of Poland, had been born blind, but recovered his sight at seven years old. He had seven wives while still a heathen, but was told that he would have no children unless he began…
Words signifying goodness are far from uncommon in this class of nomenclature. _Dobry_, good, has a worthy family. Dobrija, sometimes called Dobrowka, was the Bohemian princess whose marriage, like those of Clotilda, Bertha, and Anna, brought religion into her new country. Her husband, Miczslav, of Poland, had been born blind, but recovered his sight at seven years old. He had seven wives while still a heathen, but was told that he would have no children unless he began afresh with a Christian lady. He demanded the Czech princess. She brought St. Adalbert, of Prague, with her; and Mistislaus, as he is generally called in history, is counted as the first Polish Christian king, in the year 970. So national was the name, that the Poles altered Maria of Muscovy to Dobrija, on her marriage with Kasimir, their king. The other names of this commencement are Illyrian—Dobrogast, Dobroljub, Dobroslav, and its feminine Dobrovoj, Dobrvok, Dobrutin, and Dobrotina, Good guest, Good love, Good glory, Good war, Good wolf, and Beneficent.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VII (Names From The Slavonic), Section V (Names of Virtue) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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