Definitions

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  • adjective Of Novgorod.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Novgorod.

Etymologies

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Novgorod +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • "It was purely Novgorodian custom, a part of their culture to leave coins at entombments," Russia Info-Centre quoted Pezhemsky as saying.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • "It was purely Novgorodian custom, a part of their culture to leave coins at entombments," Russia Info-Centre quoted Pezhemsky as saying.

    75 medieval entombments excavated in north-western Russia 2007

  • My entries on law Old Icelandic, and the Pravda, and on the Novgorodian birch bark spellings received no comments.

    languagehat.com: BIRCH-BARK MAT. 2005

  • Tartar Murzi, who have submitted to be baptised and have received land like the other nobles; the Novgorodian magnate, who cannot forget the ancient glory of his native city; Lithuanian nobles, who find it more profitable to serve the Tsar than their own sovereign; petty chiefs who have fled from the opposition of the Teutonic order; and soldiers of fortune from every part of Russia.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • For some time the Variags exacted tribute from the Novgorodian Slavonians and the neighbouring Finns; then the conquered tribes, by uniting their forces, drove out the foreigners.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • The Novgorodian army had even penetrated the realms of

    The Empire of Russia 1841

  • "At that time, as the southern Slavonians paid tribute to the Kozars, so the Novgorodian Slavonians suffered from the attacks of the Variags.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • The case of ospodyn "is different: the Novgorodian variant, without [g], is probabbly due not only to the influence of Church pronunciation, vs traditionally assumed, put also to the influence of the Old hosponde, nssimilated from husbonds (Engl. husband

    Refinance 2nd Mortgage 2008

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