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  2. Ruska Roma - Wikipedia

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    The Ruska Roma (Руска Рома), also known as Russian Gypsies (Русские цыгане) or Khaladitka/Xaladytka Roma (Халадытка Рома; lit. ' Roma Soldiers ' ), [ 1 ] are the largest subgroup of Romani people in Russia and Belarus , [ 2 ] with smaller remnants of the group living in Ukraine , Latvia , Poland , the United ...

  3. Slavic honorifics - Wikipedia

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    An interesting etymological conundrum, an origin of the large family of honorific based on gospodь, is reflected by number of theories surrounding it.Most recent and interesting one is proposed by linguist Adrian Poruciuc, who asserts an early borrowing from the Old Germanic compound gōd-spōd (good fortune), in opposition to proposed unconvincing explanation based on Proto-Slavic compound ...

  4. Slavic name suffixes - Wikipedia

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    All mean "descendant of Peter". This is similar to the use of "-son" or "-sen" in Germanic languages. In East Slavic languages (Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian) the same system of name suffixes can be used to express several meanings. One of the most common is the patronymic.

  5. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    In Russian, some common suffixes are -ов (-ov), -ев (-yev), meaning "belonging to" or "of the clan of/descendant of", e.g. Petrov = of the clan of/descendant of Petr (Peter), usually used for patronymic surnames—or -ский (-sky), an adjectival form, meaning "associated with" and usually used for toponymic surnames.

  6. Gopnik - Wikipedia

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    A Russian gopnik squats in a stairwell in a khrushchyovka building (2016) A gopnik [a] is a member of a delinquent subculture in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and in other former Soviet republics—a young man (or a woman, a gopnitsa) of working-class background who usually lives in suburban areas. [2] [3] The collective noun is gopota (Russian ...

  7. Kamas language - Wikipedia

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    Kamas direct objects are subject to differential object agreement and to differential object marking. Subordinating conjunctions in Kamas are kamǝn 'when' and paka 'while', which is a borrowing from Russian пока. [5] [7]

  8. Orc (slang) - Wikipedia

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    Orc (Cyrillic: орк, romanised: ork), plural orcs (Russian and Ukrainian: орки), is a pejorative commonly used by many Ukrainians [1] to refer to a Russian soldier [2] [3] participating in the Russian-Ukrainian War and Russian citizens who support the aggression of Russia against Ukraine.

  9. Romani people in Russia - Wikipedia

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    In the 1930s many Roma from Russia were deported to Siberia. Russian Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev decreed that Roma must be settled in 1956. There was a cultural revival in the last decades of the Soviet Union when the Moscow Romani theatre was established in Russia. [1] The Roma first arrived in Russia around 1500. [2]