Chortitza

Meanings

proper noun

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

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

More words from Russian

German Chortiza, Chortitza

Russian Хо́ртица

Ukrainian Хо́ртиця

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