Rusyn definitions

Member of a people living in the eastern Carpathian Mountains, in part of western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland and north-eastern Slovakia.
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Of or pertaining to the Rusyn people, culture, or language.
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(archaic) Ethnonym for East Slavic people - any of Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, an inhabitant of Kievan Rus, Muscovy, etc., an Orthodox, East Slavic inhabitant of Rzeczpospolita.
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East Slavic language (Ukrainian dialect) spoken by Rusyns.
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Origin of rusyn

From Rusyn русин (rúsyn), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rus’, “Rus”). Compare Ruthenia.