Definitions
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- noun Member of a people living in the eastern Carpathian Mountains, in part of western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland and north-eastern Slovakia.
- noun archaic
ethnonym for Ukrainian people - proper noun East
Slavic language (Ukrainian dialect) spoken by Rusyns. - adjective Of or pertaining to the
Rusyn people, culture, or language.
Etymologies
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The local inhabitants are known as the Rusyn; Ruthenian is a Latinized version of the word.
Robert Amsterdam 2009
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The local inhabitants are known as the Rusyn; Ruthenian is a Latinized version of the word.
Robert Amsterdam 2009
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The local inhabitants are known as the Rusyn; Ruthenian is a Latinized version of the word.
Robert Amsterdam 2009
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The local inhabitants are known as the Rusyn; Ruthenian is a Latinized version of the word.
Robert Amsterdam 2008
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The eastern part of the Polish province of Galicia was also called "Rusyn" or "Ruthenia' a Latinized form in former times.
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Click over to Megan's Roots World for telltale signs of Rusyn roots, including: you have weird family traditions, including dressing up and going from door to door at Christmas time scaring the kids -- or throwing water on the girls at Easter your idea of dancing strongly resembles wrestling, skipping or a combination of both
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The Genealogue: Is Your Family Rusyn, or Just Strange? skip to main skip to sidebar
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"Mykhal Strenk" in Rusyn, Slovak: Michal Strenk -- was born in 1919 in
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Jarabina, a small Rusyn-inhabited village in Czechoslovakia.
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Here's another one a new language in between Belarusan, Polish and Rusyn.
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