Bartholomei
Bartholomei is the Old Church Slavic form of Bartholomew, reflecting the name's transmission through Byzantine Greek and its adoption into early Slavic Christian traditions.
The name ultimately derives from the Aramaic bar-Talmai, meaning "son of Talmai" and is found in the New Testament as the name of an apostle, often identified with Nathanael. This apostle, known as Bartholomew later tradition holds preached in India and Armenia and was flayed alive adding to the name's association with sainthood. These traits gave Bartholomew great popularity in medieval Christian populations that used local language versions making the variants across Europe known. Through Old Church Slavic Bartholomei became one such variant when the name traveled through Christianized regions as early Cyrillic texts translated the Greek form Bartbolomaios.
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