хуртовина

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Ukrainian

 хуртовина (завірюха) on Ukrainian Wikipedia

Etymology

From earlier хурту́на (xurtúna), from фурту́на (furtúna) (change in initial phoneme possibly influenced by Turkic), from Greek φουρτούνα (fourtoúna), from Italian fortuna (di mare), from Latin fortūna.[1]

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Noun

хуртови́на (xurtovýnaf inan (genitive хуртови́ни, nominative plural хуртови́ни, genitive plural хуртови́н, relational adjective хуртови́нний)

  1. snowstorm, blizzard
    Synonyms: завірю́ха f (zavirjúxa), заметі́ль f (zametílʹ), мете́лиця f (metélycja), меті́ль f (metílʹ)
  2. storm, tempest
    Synonym: бу́ря f (búrja)
    зимо́ва́ хуртови́наzymóvá xurtovýnawinter storm

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References

  1. ^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “хуртовина”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

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