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Inherited from Old Ruthenian Русь (Rusʹ).

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Русь (Rusʹf inan (genitive Ру́сі or Русі́, uncountable, relational adjective ру́скі)

  1. Rus
  2. Kievan Rus
    Кі́еўская РусьKíjeŭskaja RusʹKievan Rus
  3. Ruthenia, "Old Russia"

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Old East Slavic

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Etymology

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Borrowing from an ethnonym Proto-Finnic *roocci with the meaning (“people from the coast of Roþrin (‘administrative subdivision in coastal Eastern Sweden’)”), while its native Scandinavian equivalent is not attested.[1] The Finnic word, which refers to the Swedes (Germanic tribe), and later the whole of Sweden, is in turn borrowed from Old East Norse *roþs- (see Finnish Ruotsi for more). Compare Old East Slavic Сумь (Sumĭ), borrowed from Proto-Finnic *soomi. The Old East Slavic proper noun Русь is first recorded in the 12th-century Primary Chronicle. Older attestations of the same name in Greek, Latin and Arabic date to the 9th and 10th centuries. More at Rus.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈrusɪ//ˈrusʲɪ//ˈrusʲ/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈrusɪ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈrusʲɪ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈrusʲ/

Proper noun

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Русь (Rusĭf (genitive Руси)

  1. (collectively) Name of a group of Varangians, the ruling class in the principalities of Rus. [9th c.]
    • Hypatian Codex
      Афетово же колѣно и то Варѧзи . Свеи . Оурманє . Готѣ . Русь . Аглѧнѣ . Галичанѣ . Волохове . Римлѧнѣ . Нѣмци . Корлѧзи . Венедици . Фрѧговѣ . и прочии присѣдѧть ѿ запада къ полуденью. и съсѣдѧтсѧ съ племенем̑ Хамовомъ.
      Afetovo že kolěno i to Varęzi . Svei . Urmane . Gotě . Rusĭ . Aglęně . Galičaně . Voloxove . Rimlęně . Němci . Korlęzi . Venedici . Fręgově . i pročii prisědętĭ otŭ zapada kŭ poludenĭju. i sŭsědętsę sŭ plemenem̑ Xamovomŭ.
      The offspring of Japheth were the Varangians, Swedes, Norsemen, Goths, Rusĭ, Angles, Galicians, Vlachs, Romans, Germans, Korlyazi ["Carolingians", i.e. Franks], Venetians, Fryazi [Italians, Genovese] and others. In the west they are ajacent to the southern countries, and neighbours with the Hamites.
    • Hypatian Codex s.a. 6370 (862)
      идоша за море к Варѧгом̑ . к Руси . сіце бо звахуть . ты Варѧ̑гы Русь . ꙗко се друзии зовутсѧ Свеє . друзии же Оурмани . Аньглѧне . инѣи и Готе . тако и си ркоша.
      idoša za more k Varęgom̑ . k Rusi . sice bo zvaxutĭ . ty Varę̑gy Rusĭ . jako se druzii zovutsę Sveje . druzii že Urmani . Anĭglęne . iněi i Gote . tako i si rkoša.
      And they went overseas to the Varangians, to the Rusĭ. These particular Varangians were known as Rusĭ, just as some are called Swedes, and others Normans and Angles, and still others Gotlanders, for they were thus named.
  2. (collectively) Inhabitants of Rus; East Slavic people. [10–12th cc.]
    Synonym: Русьскаꙗ землꙗ (Rusĭskaja zemlja)

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Русь (Rusĭ) is the collective plural for the Varangian elite ruling Rus, the Old East Slavic state. A single individual is called a русинъ (rusinŭ), whence modern Russian руси́н (rusín, Ruthenian). While the Rus-Byzantine treaty of AD 911 is unclear on whether "Rus" refers just to the ruling elite or to the entire population, the treaty of 944 is explicit on the point that the "Rus" are "all people of the Rus land" (русьскаꙗ землꙗ (rusĭskaja zemlja)).

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  1. ^ Andersson, Thorsten. Rus' und Wikinger, ANF [Arkiv för nordisk filologi – Archive of Scandinavian Philology] 122 (2007), pp. 5‒13.

Old Ruthenian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old East Slavic Роусь (Rusĭ), borrowed from Proto-Finnic *roocci, further borrowed from Old Norse *roþs-, from róðr, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą. Cognate with Russian Русь (Rusʹ), Byzantine Greek Ῥῶς (Rhôs).

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Русь (Rusʹf inan

  1. (collectively) Inhabitants of Rus; East Slavic people
  2. Rus

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Russian

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Inherited from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ).

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  • IPA(key): [rusʲ]
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Русь (Rusʹf inan (genitive Руси́, nominative plural Ру́си, genitive plural Русе́й, relational adjective ру́сский)

  1. Rus
    на Руси́na Rusíin Rus (preposition "на", not "в" is used)
    Ки́евская РусьKíjevskaja RusʹKievan Rus
  2. (poetic) Russia
    Synonym: (regular term) Росси́я (Rossíja)
  3. Kievan Rus
  4. An umbrella term for the territory of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, inhabited by the East Slavic Christian Orthodox people. Used until the 20th century.
  5. name of a St. Petersburg daily newspaper published from 1903 to 1908
  6. name of a special forces unit (ОСНАЗ) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (formed 1994)

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  • Preposition на (na) should be used to express the location, e.g. "на Руси́" - in Rus, in Russia.

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Ukrainian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Ruthenian Русь (Rusʹ).

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Русь (Rusʹf inan (genitive Ру́сі or Русі́ or Ру́си or Руси́, uncountable, relational adjective ру́ський)

  1. Rus
  2. Kievan Rus
    Ки́ївська РусьKýjivsʹka RusʹKievan Rus
  3. Ruthenia

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