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Rusian

Rusian adjective: related to the Rus (people).

Adjective

Rusian (not comparable)

  1. related to the Rus (people)
  2. from or related to the medieval state of Kievan Rus
    • And finally, in keeping with the argument e silentio, one would be forced to conclude that the entire branch P of the Paterik Skitskij is of Rusian origin, i.e. that its chapters A–1 and B–G were added in Rusian translation to the body of chapters 2–22 and H–J transmitted in South Slavic...1992, William Veder, The Merciful Nestor and Sozomen: Early Rusian Text Transmission in a Stratigraphic Perspective

Proper noun

Rusian

  1. Old East Slavic.

Forms of Rusian

alternative formRus'ian
alternative formRus’ian
alternative formRusʼian
alternative formRusʹian

Origin of Rusian

From Rus + -ian, by analogy with Russian.

Questions about Rusian

What does Rusian mean?
Rusian means related to the Rus (people).
What part of speech is Rusian?
Rusian can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near Rusian in the dictionary

  1. Rushworths
  2. rushy
  3. Rushy Green
  4. Rushy Lagoon
  5. RUSI
  6. Rusian
  7. rusine
  8. rusing
  9. Rusinko
  10. Rusinkos
  11. Rusio

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Rusian (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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