Etymology

Chortitza

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Today it means: A village (or colony of several villages) founded by German- / Mennonite Low German-speaking Mennonites in 1789 in what is now Ukraine. Full definition →

Russian Хо́ртица
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  1. Russian · derived fromХо́ртица
  2. English todayChortitza

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

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