Talk:вокзал

My Russian teacher said this was derived from Dutch wachtzaal. Is this a folk etymology (I'm asking since the current listed etymology says 'apparantly')? 77.175.64.145 23:51, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

All the serious sources point to English Vauxhall, so yes, it must be a folk etymology. --Vahag (talk) 13:21, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Vauxhall

The Wikipedia article on Vauxhall station mentions a different etymology for the word also from Vauxhall. However, the one mentioned here seems more rational for me. Should we deal with it? CERBERUS - ii iv iii (talk) 05:21, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

@CERBERUS - ii iv iii: the Wikipedia article is spouting nonsense. It is true that Nicholas visited Britain in the summer of 1816, nine years before he was crowned Emperor; and it is true that during that visit Nicholas was fascinated by Stephenson's railway and steam locomotives. But the problem is that the Vauxhall Station in London was only built in 1848, 32 years after Nicholas's foreign visit, 12 years after Nicholas signed the order to construct Russia's first railway, and 10 years after the Pavlovsk Station - the first rail station to be called вокзал in Russian - was constructed. Tetromino (talk) 15:45, 23 September 2024 (UTC)