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  2. List of English words of Russian origin - Wikipedia

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    Balalaika [3] (Russian: балала́йка, [bəlɐˈlajkə] ) A triangle-shaped mandolin -like musical instrument with three strings. Balaclava (Russian: Балаклава) (Tatar origin) A knitted hat that covers the face, also known as a ski mask in the US and elsewhere. First used in the British army during the Crimean war of 1853–56.

  3. History of the Russian language - Wikipedia

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    Most of the modern naval vocabulary, for example, is of Dutch origin. Latin, French, and German words entered Russian for the intellectual categories of the Age of Enlightenment. Several Greek words already in the language through Church Slavonic were refashioned to reflect post-Renaissance European rather than Byzantine pronunciation. By 1800 ...

  4. Lists of English words by country or language of origin

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    List of English words of Indonesian origin, including from Javanese, Malay (Sumatran) Sundanese, Papuan (West Papua), Balinese, Dayak and other local languages in Indonesia. List of English words of Irish origin. List of Irish words used in the English language. List of English words of Italian origin.

  5. History of Russia - Wikipedia

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    History of Russia. Medieval Russian states around 1470, including Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, Ryazan, Rostov and Moscow. The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians.

  6. Rus' people - Wikipedia

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    Other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility. The Rus ', [a] also known as Russes, [2] [3] were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. [4] The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes ...

  7. Russia - Wikipedia

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    Russia,[b]or the Russian Federation,[c]is a country spanning Eastern Europeand North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zonesand sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d]It is the world's ninth-most populous countryand Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanised country ...

  8. Talk:List of English words of Russian origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a Russian word meaning Intelligence. It is no way of Polish origin. Balalaika is a instrument invented by the Russian People. Cosmonaut is also Russian. Same as Kazakh which is a person living in Kazakhstan, or their language which has a lot of Russian words. Steppe, Taiga, and Tundra, are also Russian words.

  9. Runglish - Wikipedia

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    Runglish. Runglish, Ruslish, Russlish ( Russian: рунглиш, руслиш, русслиш ), or Russian English, is a language born out of a mixture of the English and Russian languages. This is common among Russian speakers who speak English as a second language, and it is mainly spoken in post-Soviet States. [1]