The story
- German · derived fromStunde“hour”
- English todayStundist
From Russian, probably from German Stunde (“hour”), from their meetings for Bible reading.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stundist
Today it means: A member of a large sect of Russian radical Protestant dissenters founded near Odessa around 1860, who adhere to a literal reading of the Bible and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship, influenced by German Protestant settlers. Full definition →
German Stunde