Ensemble des régions d’Europe qui sont ou ont été habitées par des populations slaves. Cela correspond environ à la Biélorussie, l’Ukraine du nord, et la Russie de l’ouest.
Russia · 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. · name of a St. Petersburg daily newspaper published from 1903 to 1908
çekim: tamlayan руси́
eş: Русская земля, Древняя Русь
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ).
köken: Etymology uncertain. Earliest documentation with its current meaning from 1622. Van der Sijs claims it is a loanword from Low German, whereas De Vries claims it is related to Middle Dutch rūsen (causing commotion), from which also stems geroezemoes. Compare also German Rausch.
Russia (a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia)
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian رُوس (rūs), borrowed from Arabic رُوس (rūs), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ), borrowed from Proto-Finnic *roocci, borrowed from Old East Norse *rōþs-, possibly from Proto-Germanic *rōþruz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁-.