Talk:List of English words of Russian origin

message: Some of these words already have equivalents in english language
Cosmonaut = Astronaut
:They have difference in meaning that identifies origin of a person. Cosmonaut is from USSR/Russia, astronaut is from US or Europe, Taikonaut is from China. 195.211.195.185 (talk) 11:20, 23 December 20uyitreioyfa HOME
 
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Knout = Cat o' nine tails
Dvoryanstvo = Nobility
Spetsnaz = Special forces
Stavka = Staff (military)
Katorga = imprisonment with (hard?) labour (not sure if that's the correct legal term)
Ukase = decree
Elektrichka = electric-powered train
Banya = saunadrsa
Burlak = bfddf arge-puller
Dacha = summerhouse
Mat = profanity
Zek = a convicterh oiytr2e7((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>>_<>
Propiska = registered place of residence?
Rasputitsa = mud season  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rheinguld (talk • contribs) 09:02, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Words to delete

message: Someone removed Bistro from the list. As a matter of fact that word is indeed of Russian origin, although it might've came to English from French. Halibutt 07:28, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
:Perhaps it is, but I couldn't find any evidence of that in the Oxford English Dictionary, the Oxford American Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, or the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. All of them list French as the only etymological source. I'd be glad to have it back if you can show any evidence that the word came to French from Russian. It's quite possible that it is in fact Russian; I just couldn't find any evidence in the usual areas of etymological inquiry. Nohat 07:22, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: None of the 3 major English dictionaries with etymologies sanction the Russian origin of bistro, and this discussion from a 13-year-old edition of AHD acknowledges the story, but rejects it. Where are the etymological sources supporting the "popular story" theory that justify putting "bistro" back? Nohat 16:28, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bistro 

message: *  Nohat 06:47, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Balalaika

message: 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. Shashlik  and Mammoth are Russian words. Rusf (talk) 16:03, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Intelligentsia is a Russian Word

message: *  Nohat 06:47, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Didn't you mean Cossack? Bronx 20:07, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Kazakh

message: Should we perhaps mention somewhere that a lot of Russian words came into English through Yiddish?  Especially in American English.  Dan Carkner 23:08, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, we should. Alexander 007 23:15, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yiddish 

message: I have capitalized each word as per the general convention in a dictionary entry. --Bhadani 13:13, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalized

message: I noticed that "parka" is credited in both this article and the List_of_English_words_of_Native_American_origin. The information on Wikipedia seems to support North American more than Russian, but I don't know that much about it.--Kento 03:13, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Parka?

message: How it is Russian borrowing as in Russian it is "mamont"?--Dojarca 20:28, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See corruption (linguistics). `'Míkka 01:23, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mammoth  

message: Czar is the right way to say it in English. Tzar is the right way to say it in Russian. Tsar and zar are just made up. There is no such word as czar in Russian. If you really translate the meaning a Tzar is a King a Tzarstvo (Russian Word) is a Kingdom. A Tzaritza (Russian Word) is a Queen but unfortunately in English King and Queen are both konwn as a Czar. Rusf (talk) 16:01, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: tzar, tsar, czar, zar. Explanation

message: isn't an English word, she was a dog. Nor are Belomorkanal or the official names of government departments, space programmes etc. Can anyone provide dictionary citations for these? or for 'preved'?
Koromislo1 (talk) 17:41, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Laika

message: Vodka is not diminutuve for water, diminutive for water is 'vodichka'. Vodka refers to a chemical term of 19th century describing a substance diluted with water. From then on it became associated with diluted ethanol.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.106.171 (talk) 23:26, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Wasn't it actually go from Polish to Russian and then English?  Perhaps the dimunitive aspect is from Polish.  — Æµ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 23:49, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Vodka

message: The article states that the first word borrowed into English from Russian was "topor axe", mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon chronicles. 
However, the passage in question is about King Canute the Great, who was half Polish, the grandson of King Mieszko, and the nephew of King Boleslaw. It is much more likely that the word is from Polish, then, than it is from Russian.
No source is given supporting the claim that the word is actually Russian. Removed the passage sentence as unsourced.
Second problem was "tschotshcke", which, as the article correctly states is from Yiddish, and originally from Polish. Why would it then be considered as borrowed from Russian? Removed the passage as self-contradictory.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dominus Vobisdu (talk • contribs) 14:04, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Topor axe 

message: All the words in this list are from Russian origin. Remember: Russian Language is a part of Slavic Languages. So almost all the words in other Slavic languages are in some close form in Russian and words that are in  Russian language are in some form close to Slavic Languages. Slavic is not a language it is just a group of similar languages like Russian (The one with the most speakers), Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, etc. Ukrainian is very closely related to Russian even Russian and Ukrainian people understand each other without any problems. Just minor words are different, mostly it is just different pronunciations of vowels. Even the alphabet is the almost the same 1-3 letters are different (I don't remember all the way). Polish came from Russian and Slavic mostly. So a lot of words in Polish are also in Russian. Topor is a Russian word meaning ax. the Anglo-Saxons borrowed it from the Russians a long time ago during their trade for some years until one of the Russian's rulers died. A lot of the words mentioned in these discussion are from Russian. Russian has more ways to pronounce words than English or almost any other languages, except Slavic languages because they are the same in many ways including this one. You can call a car Mashina, Mashinka, Mashinochka. In English you can only call a car a car. There are many words in Russian  that other languages don't even have, like premydrost, mydrost is wisdom, premydrost is higher class of wisdom. Other languages don't even have words like that. With these features in the language, Russian and other Slavic languages are one of the hardest languages to learn in the world. Rusf (talk) 16:02, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Everything is right in this page

message: Russian word "казак" is translated to English as "cossack". The word "kazakh" in Russian is written as "казах". These are two different words with different meanings.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.134.35.216 (talk) 21:40, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Cossacks and Kazakhs

message: The following list of word were contained in :Category:Russian loanwords which was deleted in favor of adding them to this list.  The discussion was from January and this still was not done.  So the contents are being listed here so that those who are familiar with the way the list is set up can add the ones that are not already there.  I checked some and they were not in the list.
Aerosani,
Afghanka,
Alkonost,
Antonovka,
Artel,
Ataman,
Bannik,
Bogatyr,
Borzoi,
Boyar,
Budenovka,
Buran (wind),
Cheburashka,
Domra,
Drioma,
Droshky,
Dvinia,
Fenya,
Fortochka,
Garmon,
Gavreau,
Golomyanka,
Gopnik,
Gorodki,
Gosplan,
Guberniya,
Gusli,
Gzhel,
Hucho taimen,
Indrik,
Inorodtsy,
Inostrancevia,
Kapustnik,
Katyusha rocket launcher,
Kazakhstania,
Khokhloma,
Khorovod,
Khozyain,
Kikimora,
Kokoshnik,
Kokoshnik (architecture),
Kolkhoz,
Kolobok,
Kosovorotka,
Kotlassia,
Krushcheby,
Kulich,
Laika (dog breed),
Lapta (game),
Lubok,
Maslenitsa,
Naukograd,
Oblast,
Okolnichy,
Omul,
Ossetra,
Ostrog (fortress),
Ovinnik,
Paskha (dish),
Pernach,
Petrushka,
Pirozhki,
Pobedit,
Podpolkovnik,
Podruchnik,
Podstakannik,
Posad,
Posadnik,
Poshlost,
Poustinia,
Prospekt (street),
Rabfak,
Raion,
Raskol,
Rassolnik,
Runet (terminology),
Samosely,
Sarafan,
Shishiga,
Smerd,
Sobornost,
Solyanka,
Sotnik,
Sovnya,
Soyuz,
Stanitsa,
Steppe,
Stilyagi,
Subbotnik,
Sushki,
Svirel,
Syrniki,
Talik,
Tarantass,
Technicum,
Telega,
Telnyashka,
Telogreika,
Treshchotka,
Tsaritsa,
Tubeteika,
Udarnik,
Ukha,
Ushkuiniks,
Uyezd,
Valenki,
Veche,
Venyukovia,
Volost,
Vostok,
Yorsh,
Zapoy,
Zastruga,
Zhaleika
Thanks. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:12, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Listify decision at CfD 

message: I propose to move some words like 'sputnik' and 'cosmonaut' from the common list to some other category, possibly new. In English, they refer exclusively to the Soviet/Russian space program. In that sense, they are not common as are the words 'mammoth' and 'babushka'. On the other hand, the Cuisine and Political and possibly other sections mix words that are fairly obscure in the English-speaking world and are only used in Russian context, such as 'coulibiac', 'glasnost' and even 'DOSAAF' (!) with common words like 'tsar '(which is often used not to refer to a Russian monarch but to describe a ruthless ruler etc., often ironically) and 'vodka'.  Sergivs-en (talk) 05:29, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This is exactly what I was expecting to see in this entry: words of Russian origin in common English usage not connected with Russia: Tsar, Mammoth, samizdat, etc. Although 'Babushka' is pretty common, I only ever see it used in connection with Russian grannies. Similarly, a samovar is a very Russian thing, so I wouldn't include it in a list of borrowings. Perhaps it's reasonable to have a section for generally understood but still very Ruso-specific terms, but I"m not sure how useful that would be. SleekWeasel (talk) 11:28, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sections 

message: ~Yurt, a particular kind of portable housing typical of Mongolia; probably from Mongolian /gehr/.
~ -nik is not explained.
~ A blin (pl. blini) or blintchik (pl. blintchiki) is a type of thin pancakes which typically lacks a leavening agent.
~ borscht?  This soup is Ukrainian, but maybe the word entered English from Russian.
~ kasha - In English:  buckwheat groats, but in Russian cereal grains in general. Kdammers (talk) 20:45, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  and... 

message: The article states "Okhrana in full The Okhrannoye otdeleniye".
Should be "Okhranka" actually, the suffix -k is common for such abbreviations (Elektrichka is an example, short for "Elektricheskiy poyezd", "electrical train").  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A31A:E040:B300:8256:F2FF:FEEA:39CB (talk) 00:58, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Okhran(k)a