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From: kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz (Paul J. Kriha)
Subject: Re: U-krayna?
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aa318@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (John Coughlin) wrote:
>
>In a previous posting, "Paul J. Kriha" (kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz) writes:
>> Jorma Kyppo <jorma@jytko.jyu.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would like to ask if anybody knows about the origins
>>> of name Ukrayna.
>>> Could it have something to do with the word 'krajina' = district.
>>
>> "Kraj" or "Krajina" have several meanings in Slavic languages:
>> (1) Region
>> (2) Countryside
>> (3) End, Edge, Border, Extremity
>> (4) Margin
>>
>> "U" = by or at
>>
>Indeed, I once read that Ukraine/Ukrayna means "borderland", referring to
>its juxtaposition with Russia.

At times U. belonged to Poland, then she was the SE borderland,  :-)
other times to Russia, and then she was the West borderland.     :-)

Paul JK


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