Ukrainer

See also: ukrainer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew

Proto-Balto-Slavic *au

Proto-Slavic *u

Proto-Slavic *u-

Proto-Indo-European *krey-

Proto-Indo-European *kreh₁y-

Proto-Indo-European *kroh₁y-

Proto-Indo-European *kroyh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *kroyh₁-eye-ti

Proto-Balto-Slavic *krájīˀtei

Proto-Slavic *krojiti?

Proto-Indo-European *krey-der.?

Proto-Slavic *kràjь

Proto-Indo-European *-iHneh

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-īˀnāˀder.

Proto-Slavic *-ina

Proto-Slavic *ukrajina

Old East Slavic оукраина (ukraina)der.

Polish Ukrainabor.

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Old East Slavic оукраина (ukraina)

Russian Украи́на (Ukraína)bor.

English Ukraine

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English Ukrainer

From Ukraine + -er.

Noun

Ukrainer (plural Ukrainers)

1. (obsolete, rare) A Ukrainian.
   • 1803, Mary Hays, “Catherine II. (Concluded.)”, in Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries. […], volume III, London: […] Richard Phillips, […] [b]y Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, page 130:

     If the Ukrainer possessed the art of pleasing, Potemkin knew how to render himself useful; his talents, more analogous to the genius of Catherine, uninterruptedly preserved their ascendant.

German

Pronunciation

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Noun

Ukrainer m (strong, genitive Ukrainers, plural Ukrainer, feminine Ukrainerin)

1. Ukrainian (male or of unspecified gender) (ethnic Ukrainian or citizen of Ukraine)

Declension

Declension of Ukrainer [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Ukrainer	die	Ukrainer
genitive	eines	des	Ukrainers	der	Ukrainer
dative	einem	dem	Ukrainer	den	Ukrainern
accusative	einen	den	Ukrainer	die	Ukrainer

Derived terms

• Ukrainerin

Related terms

• Sowjetukraine, Sowjet-Ukraine
• sowjetukrainisch
• Ukraine
• ukrainedeutsch
• Ukrainedeutscher
• Ukrainisch
• ukrainisch
• Ukrainische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik, (Initialisms) USSR, UkrSSR
• Ukrainist
• Ukrainistik
• ukrainistisch

Further reading

• “Ukrainer” in Duden online
• “Ukrainer”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Luxembourgish

Noun

Ukrainer m (plural Ukrainer, feminine Ukrainerin)

1. Ukrainian

Related terms

• Ukrain
• ukrainesch