украина
Old East Slavic
Etymology
From оу (u, “beside, at”) + краи (krai, “border, edge”) + -ина (-ina). Perhaps from Proto-Slavic *ukrajina.
Pronunciation
Descendants
Further reading
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Old Ruthenian
Alternative forms
- оукра́ина, ꙋкра́ина, укра́йна, вкра́ина, вкра́йна
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic оукра́ина (ukráina), from оу- (u-) + краи + -ина. Perhaps from Proto-Slavic *ukrajina.
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “вкраина; украина”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, issue 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: St. Publ. House of Ukraine, page 262
- Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “*оукраина”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ – 15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 474
- Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1997), “вкраина¹; украина¹”, in Словник української мови XVI – I пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), issue 4 (весь – вправѣ), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 82
- Bulyka, A. M., editor (2014), “украина, вкраина, украйна”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 34 (тресолнечный – умопомятенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 355
- Tymchenko, E. K. (2003), “украина”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of the 15ᵗʰ – 18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (О – Я), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 424
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