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Chortitza

Chortitza proper noun: a village (or colony of several villages) founded by German- / Mennonite Low German-speaking Mennonites in 1789 in what is now Ukraine.

Proper noun

Chortitza

  1. A village (or colony of several villages) founded by German- / Mennonite Low German-speaking Mennonites in 1789 in what is now Ukraine.

Origin of Chortitza

Via Plautdietsch or German, from Russian Хо́ртица (Xórtica) (cf. Ukrainian Хо́ртиця (Xórtycja)), the name of Khortytsia (the largest island in the Dnieper River).

Questions about Chortitza

What does Chortitza mean?
Chortitza means a village (or colony of several villages) founded by German- / Mennonite Low German-speaking Mennonites in 1789 in what is now Ukraine.
What part of speech is Chortitza?
Chortitza is a proper noun.

Words near Chortitza in the dictionary

  1. chort
  2. chortan
  3. chorten
  4. chortens
  5. Chorti
  6. Chortitza
  7. Chortkiv
  8. chortle
  9. chortled
  10. chortler
  11. chortlers

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