Noun: Russia
| Singular | Russia |
| Plural | Russias |
Sample Sentences
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Dull Russias will prove a good selling line for women according to the predictions of certain manufacturers. [1914, Shoe and Leather Journal, volume 27, page 36:]
Nouns inflected like Russia
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Finnic *rooccibor.
3. Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ)bor.
4. New Latin Russiabor.
5. English Russia
6. From Medieval Latin Russia, from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ) (whence Arabic رُوس (rūs) and Byzantine Greek Ῥῶς (Rhôs)), which originally referred to a group of Varangians who established themselves near Kiev in the 9th century and ruled Kievan Rus; probably from Proto-Finnic *roocci, from Old East Norse *roþs- (“related to rowing”); related to Old Norse Roþrslandi (“the land of rowing”), an older name of Roslagen, where the Finns first encountered the Swedes. Ultimately from Old Norse róðr (“steering oar”), from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą (“rudder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). By surface analysis, Russ + -ia. First attested in c. 1390s. Doublet of Rossiya. See: Old Norse Nouns '
Roþrslandi', Old Norse Nouns '
róðr'.
Verbs referencing "Russia"
Zulu Nouns
iRashiya.