русич — meaning in English
rusich
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English meaning
- Rus name The medieval East Slavic state, centered around Kiev, founded by Scandinavian traders and warriors starting in the 9th century.
Senses
русич is used for these senses in English:
- Rus A people made up of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century, and whose settlements around Novgorod, Kiev/Kyiv and the Volga and Dnieper/Dnipro gave rise to the Rus' principalities. [from 19th c.]
- Rusyn (archaic) An ethnonym for East Slavic people - any of Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, an inhabitant of Kievan Rus, Muscovy, etc., an Orthodox, East Slavic inhabitant of Rzeczpospolita.
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