Carpatho-Rusyn

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English

Etymology

From Carpatho- +‎ Rusyn.

Noun

Carpatho-Rusyn (plural Carpatho-Rusyns or Carpatho-Rusyn)

  1. A member of an east-Slavic ethnic group of the Carpathian mountains.
    • 2006 November 8, Andrew R. L. Cayton, Richard Sisson, Chris Zacher, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 237:
      Religion frequently divided East Slavs. By 1924, when the Ukrainians and the Carpatho-Rusyns were given separate Greek Catholic bishops, there were more than 235,000 members of the Ukrainian diocese (headquartered in Philadelphia) and []

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Proper noun

Carpatho-Rusyn

  1. (uncountable) The Carpatho-Rusyn language.

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Further reading

  • Klose, Albrecht (2001) Sprachen der Welt = Languages of the World, 2 edition, München: Saur, →ISBN, page 167