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Russian
Etymology
го́род (górod) + -ни́к (-ník) + -ий (-ij)
Pronunciation
Noun
городни́чий • (gorodníčij) m anim (genitive городни́чего, nominative plural городни́чие, genitive plural городни́чих)
- (historical) governor, mayor of an uyezd city
1879, Николай Лесков [Nikolai Leskov], “Глава третья”, in Однодум; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Singlemind, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013:Не раз бы́ло ска́зано и нике́м не оспо́рено, что, по поня́тию мно́гих ру́сских люде́й, ка́ждый городни́чий был «тре́тье лицо́ в госуда́рстве».- Ne raz býlo skázano i nikém ne ospóreno, što, po ponjátiju mnógix rússkix ljudéj, káždyj gorodníčij byl «trétʹje licó v gosudárstve».
- It has been said more than once and disputed by no one that, in the understanding of many Russian people, every mayor was “the third person of the state.”
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