Etymograph

English

makitra

Makitra comes from Ukrainian макі́тра, and goes back to Old Ruthenian *макотра.

  1. Old Ruthenianmodern*макотраreconstructed
  2. Ukrainianmodernмакі́траmakítra
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1989makitra

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Ruthenianmodern*макотраreconstructed
  2. Ukrainianmodernмакі́траmakítra
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1989makitra

Earliest quotation: 1989, Kanev Museum of Folk Decorative Art, Dnipropetrovsk: «Промінь»: “The bowls, makitras (high clay pots), salt-cellars are made…”

Today it means

noun A Ukrainian clay mixing bowl used to grind various soft products.

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

Etymograph / Old Ruthenian *макотра / makitra