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Ukrainian
Etymology
By surface analysis, около (okolo) + -иця (-ycja). Compare Russian око́лица (okólica), Belarusian ако́ліца (akólica) and вако́ліца (vakólica), Polish okolica.
Pronunciation
Noun
око́лиця • (okólycja) f inan (genitive око́лиці, nominative plural око́лиці, genitive plural око́лиць)
- a part of a settlement remote from the city center, city outskirts
- outskirts, periphery
- Synonym: перифері́я f (peryferíja)
- environs, surroundings, vicinity, neighborhood
- (rarely) a remote border-region of a state, outskirt
Віддалена прикордонна область держави; окраїна. Не міг великий князь Київської Русі завжди знати, що робиться на околицях Руської землі- Viddalena prykordonna oblastʹ deržavy; okrajina. Ne mih velykyj knjazʹ Kyjivsʹkoji Rusi zavždy znaty, ščo robytʹsja na okolycjax Rusʹkoji zemli
- The Grand Duke of Kievan Rus could not always know what was happening on the outskirts of the Russian land
Declension
Declension of око́лиця (inan soft fem-form accent-a)
Further reading
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “околиця”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2013), “околиця”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 4 (д – жучо́к), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
- “околиця”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
- “околиця”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
- “околиця”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)