Etymograph

English

Kharkiv

Kharkiv comes from Ukrainian Ха́рків, and goes back to Old Ruthenian Ха́рьковъ.

  1. Old RuthenianmodernХа́рьковъXárʹkov
  2. UkrainianmodernХа́рківXárkiv
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2022Kharkiv

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old RuthenianmodernХа́рьковъXárʹkov
  2. UkrainianmodernХа́рківXárkiv
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2022Kharkiv

Earliest quotation: 2022, Ivana Kottasová, ‘Kamikaze’ drones are the latest threat for Ukraine. Here’s : “But Ukraine claimed its forces had shot down one…”

The story

The city is named after the Kharkiv River. A folk etymology says the city and river are named after a Cossack called Харко́ (Xarkó), from Харько́ (Xarʹkó), from Greek Χαρίτων (Charíton), but there is no hard evidence supporting this.folk etymology The source marks this as unproven or a folk etymology. Quoted, not asserted.

Every English word from Old Ruthenian Ха́рьковъ

Today it means

name An industrial city, the administrative centre of Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, in eastern Ukraine.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old Ruthenian Ха́рьковъ / Kharkiv

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