adj, name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A member of a people living in the eastern Carpathian Mountains, in part of western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland and north-eastern Slovakia.
2. 2
   An ethnonym for East Slavic people - any of Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, an inhabitant of Kievan Rus, Muscovy, etc., an Orthodox, East Slavic inhabitant of Rzeczpospolita. archaic

Adjective

1. 1
   Of or pertaining to the Rusyn people, culture, or language.

Proper Noun

1. 1
   The Eastern Slavic language spoken by the Carpatho-Rusyns.

Etymology

From Carpathian Rusyn руси́н (rusýn), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ, “Rus”). Compare Ruthenia.

Related phrases

Carpathian RusynPannonian Rusyncarpathian rutheniacarpatho rusyneastern europe

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