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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From Rusyn русин (rúsyn), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rus’, "Rus"). Compare Ruthenia.

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Examples

  • The local inhabitants are known as the Rusyn; Ruthenian is a Latinized version of the word.

    Robert Amsterdam 2009

  • The local inhabitants are known as the Rusyn; Ruthenian is a Latinized version of the word.

    Robert Amsterdam 2009

  • The local inhabitants are known as the Rusyn; Ruthenian is a Latinized version of the word.

    Robert Amsterdam 2009

  • The local inhabitants are known as the Rusyn; Ruthenian is a Latinized version of the word.

    Robert Amsterdam 2008

  • The eastern part of the Polish province of Galicia was also called "Rusyn" or "Ruthenia' a Latinized form in former times.

    languagehat.com: RUSYN/RUTHENIAN. 2005

  • 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

    Is Your Family Rusyn, or Just Strange? 2006

  • The Genealogue: Is Your Family Rusyn, or Just Strange? skip to main skip to sidebar

    Is Your Family Rusyn, or Just Strange? 2006

  • "Mykhal Strenk" in Rusyn, Slovak: Michal Strenk -- was born in 1919 in

    A History Lesson on Slovakia 2008

  • Jarabina, a small Rusyn-inhabited village in Czechoslovakia.

    A History Lesson on Slovakia 2008

  • Here's another one a new language in between Belarusan, Polish and Rusyn.

    languagehat.com: RUSYN/RUTHENIAN. 2005

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