The story
- Ukrainian · derived fromсамви́дав“samizdat”
- English todaysamvydav
1971, from Ukrainian самви́дав (samvýdav, “samizdat”) < сам (sam, “self”) + ви́дання (výdannja, “publication”). Compare samizdat < Russian самизда́т (samizdát).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.