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Rusnakadj.n.Origin: A borrowing from Rusyn; probably partly modelled on a German lexical item. Etymon: Rusyn rusnak. Etymology: Ultimately < Rusyn rusnak, noun, self-designation (see note below); compare Ukrainian rusnak . In α. forms probably originally after German Russniaken, plural noun (1779 or earlier), itself ultimately < the Rusyn word, perhaps via a neighbouring Slavonic language (compare Czech rusnák , rusňák (1837), Polish rusnak , rusniak ); compare French roussniak (1829 or earlier). In β. forms after Hungarian rusznyák, adjective and noun (1825 or earlier). With the γ. forms compare German Rusnaken (1792 or earlier), Russnaken (1833 or earlier), plural nouns. Compare earlier Ruthene adj., Ruthenian adj. 1 and later Rusyn adj. With the use as noun, compare earlier Ruthene n. 1 and later Rusyn n., Ruthenian n. 2.Rusyn rusnak (plural rusnaci , rusnacy ) is used (alongside the more common rusyn , noun (see Rusyn n.), rusyn′skyj , adjective) as self-designation of the people in the Transcarpathian region. It is ultimately derived < Old Russian Rus′ (see Russ adj. and n.) + -n- , arbitrary element + -ak , suffix forming nouns (compare Ukrainian poljak , Polish polak Polack n., Ukrainian slovak , Slovak slovák Slovak n., which show the cognate suffixes in other Slavonic languages). With the insertion of -n-, compare the similarly formed Russian bereznjak ‘birch copse’, dubnjak ‘oak copse’, which are derived < berëza birch (see beriozka n.), dub ‘oak’, respectively. In plural forms Rusnaci, Rusnacy after the Rusyn plural forms. A. adj.the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > Russian peoples > [adjective] 1804 Nov. 294 A Russniac peasant, of the Palatinate of Marmaros [i.e. Maramureş, in present-day Romania]. 1843 tr. J. G. Kohl 435 The great Rusniak nobility, therefore, has lost all its Russian character, and become completely Polish. 1899 F. H. Groome vi. 167 In many Polish and Russniak tales one meets with a bird's feather or a horse-hair possessing the magical power of making anybody immediately appear. 1910 E. G. Balch i. i. 8 Of the thirty-nine groups recognized in the classification of the Immigration Department eight are Slav; namely..Croatian and Slovenian,..Ruthenian or Russniak [etc.]. 1982 16 84 It was a Rusnak family from Slovakia. 2004 R. C. Metil in U. Hemetek 114 Throughout most of the socialist period, Rusnak cultural programming in the region was conducted under the auspices of The Cultural Union of Ukrainian Workers. B. n.the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > Russian peoples > [noun] 1823 tr. F. S. Beudant 30 In Transylvania it is the main article of sustenance to the Wallachians and Russniaks, who make a kind of gruel with it. a1832 (1845) XX. 397 In the North-Eastern Carpathians the Russniacs, or Red Russians, extend to the County of Marmaros. 1883 Nov. 754 Two-thirds of its population..belonging to the Reformed Church, the remaining third being mainly Russniaks or Ruthenes. 1908 D. Gerard ii. ii. 56 The inimical neighbourhood had unavoidably tabooed the ‘Rusniaks’. 1969 28 31 Not many Americans were able..to distinguish between the..‘Russniaks’, ‘Russians’, ‘Ukrainians’, and so on. 2002 H. Duc-Fajfer in P. R. Magocsi & I. Pop 293/2 Rusnaks also found employment as seasonal workers in the more agriculturally developed lands to the south, especially the Hungarian Plain. the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavonic > Ukrainian > dialect of 1827 tr. C. Malte-Brun VI. xcvi. 102 Rusniac, a very ancient dialect. 1862 R. G. Latham 627 With the exception..of the Malo-Russian, Ruthenian, Russinian, Rusniak, or Little Russian,..none of the dialects of Russia have commanded much attention. 1894 A. Lefèvre 239 Little Russian, Rusniac, or Ruthene. 1949 R. Jakobson 4 Ukrainian dialects are classified into Northern, Southeastern, Southwestern, and Carpathian groups; the marginal dialects (called Rusnak) of the latter group are Slovak-influenced. 1990 A. F. Majewicz & T. Wicherkiewicz in D. Gorter II. xi. 150/3 (table) Lemkish dialect of Ukrainian, regarded by some as a separate language named Rusnak. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1804 |