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Pacheneg

Pacheneg is the alternative form of Pecheneg.

Meaning of Pecheneg

Noun

Pecheneg (plural Pechenegs)

  1. (historical) A member of a specific semi-nomadic Turkic people from central Asia, some of whom migrated into eastern Europe.
    • The Pechenegs had already ceased to be a major threat by the time Kievan Rus’ converted to Christianity in 988, and most references to them in the chronicle are in the period before this, earlier in the tenth century.1987, Charles J. Halperin, Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History, Indiana University Press, page 13

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Forms of Pacheneg

Noun
pluralPachenegs
Adjective
comparativemore Pacheneg
superlativemost Pacheneg

Questions about Pacheneg

What is Pacheneg the alternative form of?
Pacheneg is the alternative form of Pecheneg.

Words near Pacheneg in the dictionary

  1. pachas
  2. pachastrelloside
  3. Pacheco
  4. Pachecos
  5. Pachelbelian
  6. Pacheneg
  7. Pachenegs
  8. Pachgatgoch
  9. pachigyria
  10. pachimetry
  11. Pachin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pacheneg (page history and authors); Pecheneg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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