крестьянин

Russian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic крьстьꙗнинъ (krĭstĭjaninŭ, Christian; human, person; tax-paying villager), крьстьꙗнъ (krĭstĭjanŭ, Christian; peasant, tiller; tax-paying villager), from Latin christiānus (Christian). For semantic shift to "peasant", compare English cretin, also from Latin christiānus, through French.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [krʲɪsʲˈtʲjænʲɪn]
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Noun

крестья́нин (krestʹjánin) m anim (genitive крестья́нина, nominative plural крестья́не, genitive plural крестья́н, feminine крестья́нка)

  1. farmer
  2. (historical) peasant

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References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), крестьянин”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress
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