Wordie: slavonicisms

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slavonicisms

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English borrowings from Slavic languages; in some cases, a word might be rooted in another language but entered English from a Slavic language (e.g. nihilism was popularized by Ivan Turgenev, as нигилизм – nigilizm, in the novel Fathers and Sons, though its root, nihil, is Latin).

karstic has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

gulag has been listed 13 times with 0 comments

zek has been listed 7 times with 2 comments

samizdat has been listed 24 times with 3 comments

zemblanity has been listed 10 times with 2 comments

nudnik has been listed 9 times with 1 comment

baba has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

muzhik has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

robot has been listed 34 times with 3 comments

babushka has been listed 16 times with 10 comments

chernozem has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

ruble has been listed 4 times with 0 comments

kopeck has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

intelligentsia has been listed 10 times with 1 comment

nihilism has been listed 34 times with 4 comments

buggery has been listed 10 times with 1 comment

czar has been listed 14 times with 3 comments

tsar has been listed 8 times with 4 comments

cravat has been listed 16 times with 3 comments

slave has been listed 4 times with 1 comment

knout has been listed 6 times with 3 comments

karst has been listed 10 times with 1 comment

vampire has been listed 27 times with 2 comments

ukase has been listed 14 times with 1 comment

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