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Chortitza en · PROPN

Etymology

Via Plautdietsch or German, from Russian Хо́ртица (Xórtica) (cf. Ukrainian Хо́ртиця (Xórtycja)), the name of Khortytsia (the largest island in the Dnieper River).

Meanings

  1. A village (or colony of several villages) founded by German- / Mennonite Low German-speaking Mennonites in 1789 in what is now Ukraine.

Relateds

Molotschna

Translations (4)

uk Хо́ртиця (Chortitza) · de Chortiza (Chortitza) · de Chortitza (Chortitza) · ru Хо́ртица (Chortitza)

wikipedia: Khortytsia