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Har namnet Putin möjligen någon koppling till Rasputin? Eller varför heter han annars just Putin, är det en slump eller vad tror ni?
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"rasputitsa" (распутица) means season of bad roads! I have not heard the word being used nowadays, I guess because there are fewer dirt roads around.
2) "Putin" literally means "of road" or "related to road." It is a derivative of "put' " (путь), which means "road"/"way." At the same time, it's not an inflected form of this same noun. In the Russian language, the word "Putin" only exists as a surname, it's not used in any other context and thus it does not really mean anything. To express the meaning of "related to road," we would just use an inflected form of the noun "road"/ путь ( puti/путИ) which is different from "Putin."
Also, there is an opinion that this particular surname derived from the personal name Putyai/Путяй which is purpotedly how a child who was born while his parents were travelling (were on the road) could have been named.
3) In a similar way, Rasputin (Распутин) could mean "related to rasputitsa," because the suffix -in/-ин signifies relation. Also, it might have derived from Rasputa (Распута) — a nickname for an immoral or sick person (which could have also functioned as a charm against evil spirits to discourage them from taking a child away or harming it). However, it is also said that Rasputa (Распута) could as well mean "the season of bad roads" — same as "rasputitsa".
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=37462