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Russian
Etymology
за́пад (západ) + -ник (-nik), since the 1840s.
Pronunciation
Noun
за́падник • (západnik) m anim (genitive за́падника, nominative plural за́падники, genitive plural за́падников)
- (historical) Westernizer
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References
- западник in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
- Shansky, N. M., editor (1975), “западник”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, number 6 (З), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 51