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chortitza

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
chor-titza
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: -, Хо́ртица

Frequently Paired Words

Molotschna

Questions

What does chortitza mean?
A village (or colony of several villages) founded by German- / Mennonite Low German-speaking Mennonites in 1789 in what is now Ukraine.
Where does chortitza come from?
It is traced to German.

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