Jerome wrote his Commentary on the Epistle to the
Ephesians (in three books) ca. 388 AD. In the
Introduction to the Third Book thereof, he explains
that the epistle was brought to Ephesus by Paul's
collaborator Tychicus, and then casually states:
"Tychicus enim 'silens' interpretatur". I have
consulted the Commentary in the Migne edition (it is
in vol. 26 of the Patrologia Latina). According to the
note in the Migne apparatus, Jerome relied for this
(and other etymologies) on a LIBER DE NOMINIBUS
HAEBRAICIS, allegedly composed by Origen. Here is the
text of the note: "Hujusmodi etymologias nominum
Graecorum mutuatus est Hieronymus ab Origene, qui
Lexicon Hebraicorum nominum condidit e novo
Testamento, quique satis absurde Graeca et Latina
quasi essent Hebraea interpretari voluit. Consule
librum Hebraeorum Nominum tomo III."/.../ "Caeterum
nemo, opinor, Graecum hoc, non Hebraicum esse nomen,
et sonare in Latino, fortunatum, ignorat."
So Brian and Piotr are quite right as to the
etymology. And Jerome (erroneously) gave what he
thought was a Hebrew sense. There is nothing Slavic
here.
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