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These are not on the Wiki list Feb 1, 2009

sevruga - as in caviar
pashka - cake (Easter)
mammoth - huge
kopek, rouble - currency
commmissar - Communist Party official
nomenklatura - Party appointees (based on Latin nomenclature)
politburo
ukase - edict
muzhik - Russian peasant
samizdat
shashlik - mutton kebab (Turkish influence)
yurt - also from the Turkish jurta via Russian
 
Alessandro Zocchi
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...As for "czar"... Feb 4, 2009

...I don't really think the word 'czar' originally comes from Russian.

The ethymologic dictionary I usually use reports the origin of this word from CAESAR (which would come from the gotic term KAISAR). Czar is the title the emperor Ivan IV assumed in 1547. And in 917 so did also Simeon, Emperor of Bulgaria (bulg. car).

I am not writing this with a polemic attitude!

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...I don't really think the word 'czar' originally comes from Russian.

The ethymologic dictionary I usually use reports the origin of this word from CAESAR (which would come from the gotic term KAISAR). Czar is the title the emperor Ivan IV assumed in 1547. And in 917 so did also Simeon, Emperor of Bulgaria (bulg. car).

I am not writing this with a polemic attitude!

Успехи!


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JoanneEdwards
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Russian to English
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Another few Mar 30, 2009

This isn't widely known but the word "pogrom" comes form the Russian "pogromit'" which means to destroy.

On a slightly irrelevant yet interesting note the Russian word for station "vokzal" comes from the English station "Vauxhall"

I believe the place "Balaklava" may stem from the Tatar word for fish "balik".
 
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