bukvitsa
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An ancient Slavic alphabet (an adaptation of Glagolitic and Cyrillic).
noun
A pseudohistorical alphabet based on Cyrillic, created by Russian neopagan esoteric A. Yu. Khinevich, founder of Ynglism, but having no connection with historical Slavic writings.
Example Sentences
- "In the Slavonic it occupies, as jest, the 6th place of the Bukvitsa as well as of the Cyrillic scheme, and has two softening forms as finals (-er, -eri) toward the close of the alphabet."
- "Scripts such as Bukvitsa (an adaptation of Glagolitic and Cyrillic), Elbasan, Buthakiikye, Argyrokastron or Veso Bei's script (old Albanian alphabets), Pamphylian and Lydian (Asianic languages), Tagbanua, Mangyan, lloco, Pangasinan, Pampangan and Buhil (Philippine Islands), Passipa and Uighur of Mongolia, the latter a transitional alphabet derived from Nestorian, Sogdian (Eastern Turkestan) and Balti (Tibet) have not been included."
- "In the Slavic Orthodox tradition, the Glagolitic script and early books preserved in it were perceived as an inalienable part of Orthodox Christianity. Hence, Orthodox churchmen called it 'Bukvitsa,' a name derived from the East Slavic word for 'letter' (bukva)."
- "The hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church declared Slavic writings (Bukvitsa, Runes, etc.) to be black magic and demonic writings; the result of which was the loss by the Slavic people of the ability to learn the ancestral experience of their Ancestors."
Etymology
From Russian бу́квица (búkvica).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: бу́квица