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Belarusian
Etymology
міну́ўшы (minúŭšy, “past”) + -шчына (-ščyna, “-hood, -dom, -ness, -age”), the former deriving from міну́ць (minúcʹ, “to pass by, to elapse”). Compare Ukrainian мину́вшина (mynúvšyna) and its alternate form мину́вщина (mynúvščyna).
Pronunciation
Noun
міну́ўшчына • (minúŭščyna) f inan (genitive міну́ўшчыны, uncountable)
- the past
- Synonyms: міну́лае (minúlaje), про́шласць (próšlascʹ)
- Antonyms: бу́дучыня (búdučynja), сапра́ўднае (sapráŭdnaje)
Declension
Declension of міну́ўшчына (inan sg-only hard fem-form accent-a)
References
- “мінуўшчына” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
- “мінуўшчына”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)