belorussianism
/ˌbɛləˈɹʌʃənɪzəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "KUL 378 is early among Burcev manuscripts (see Appendix, no. A-1). Variation is largely expected to be restricted to phonetic and orthographic Ukrainianisms and Belorussianisms such as […]"
- "Belorussian thus constitutes a unique phenomenon among the Slavic literary languages: here is a language in a perpetual state of diglosso-schizoglossia involving three related Slavic languages (and two simultaneously – Polish and Russian). The result ofthese conditions was that the first literary language in the Belorussian lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania shared the scene with a variant of Church Slavic saturated to varying degrees with belorussianisms, while the modern Belorussian literary language, based, to be sure, on native dialects with a varying number of isoglosses extending into Russian territory, with or without a flood of elements from Polish and/or Russian in its spoken and written forms, had to compete with Russian and Polish for written functions."
- "In fact, however, almost all neologisms originally came into the literary Soviet Yiddish from Russian rather than Ukrainian or Belorussian. Ukrainian and, especially even less developed (in terms of modern termonology) Belorussian, played a negligible role as donor languages. Thus the Yiddish verb derkenen zikh, a loan translation of the Belorussian spaznatstsa (to meet), is a rare example of modern Belorussianisms (listed in Plavnik and Rubinshtejn 1932 and in Rokhkind and Shkljar 1940)."
- "As long as Belorussianism had been a movement away from Russia, it was welcome. But as soon as it had become a movement away from Poland, it could not be tolerated. […] the Soviets had been up against men, and not against symbols of Belorussianism."
Etymology
From Belorussian + -ism.