English Explanatory Dictionary

Chortitza

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Chortitza

Etymology

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

Related words

Molotschna
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