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Ukraine may come from Polish Ukraina.
- PolishmodernUkrainauncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2023Ukraine
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
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- Englishearliest quotation 2023Ukraine
Earliest quotation: 2023, Rhea Mogul, Indian Air Force says”: “An IAF representative told an Indian parliamentary committee that…”
The story
Borrowed from Polish Ukraina or Russian Украи́на (Ukraína), from Old East Slavic оукраина (ukraina), which is most commonly taken to have meant "borderland, marches" in this context, though for about a century now Ukrainian scholars have articulated an alternative theory that it meant "region, country, the land around (a given center)" in this context instead.disputed Scholars disagree here; the competing view is quoted as the source gives it.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *krey- ‘to sift, separate, divide’
secretary, secret, crime, certain, crisis, criminal, discrimination, critic, discretion, critique, discrete, criterion, riddle, discreet, hypocrite, discriminate, discern, excrement, endocrine, excretion, rime, incriminate, excrete, incrimination, ridder, criterium, recrimination, certitude, 47 more
Today it means
name A country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea. Capital and largest city: Kyiv.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Polish Ukraina / Ukraine