Recorded variant, no documentary date
Zhmuydya
The form under which family trees published online name the line's oldest ancestors —Leizer, Yehuda and Alexander— and David. No document of this research shows it: the 1858 census writes Zmud.
No document of this research shows it
Where it appears
In the family trees published online, which propose three generations above Falk —Alexander, Yehuda and Leizer Zhmuydya— and which also name David this way. That is why the entries for those three generations carry this surname: it is the name under which they are found when searching.
No document of this research shows it. The 1858 census writes “David Falikov Zmud”, and the 1853 list, Zhmuyd.
What the word says
It is the same word as Zmud and Zhmud: it comes from Žemaitija, Samogitia, the region of western Lithuania that the Slavic languages called Żmudź, and meant roughly “the one from Samogitia”.
Nearby forms
Zhmudya and Zhmuyda are recorded forms of the same word. This research does not date them in any document of its own: they are listed in the name table because they are useful for searching.