Rusyn

Meaning

Noun

1. A member of a people living in the eastern Carpathian Mountains, in part of western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland and north-eastern Slovakia.
2. (archaic) An ethnonym for East Slavic people - any of Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, an inhabitant of Kievan Rus, Muscovy, etc., an Orthodox, East Slavic inhabitant of Rzeczpospolita.

Name

The Eastern Slavic language spoken by the Carpatho-Rusyns.

Adj

Of or pertaining to the Rusyn people, culture, or language.

Synonyms

Ruthenian

Translations

ruteno

ruthène

Roetheens

Russinisch

rhuthène

lingua rutena pannonica

russino

Karpato-Oekraïens

ruteno

rutenio

ruteno

Rusince

Ruthenisch

ruthenisch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈruːsɪn/

Etymology

From Carpathian Rusyn руси́н (rusýn), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ, “Rus”). Compare Ruthenia.