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English words of Ukrainian origin are words in the English language that have been borrowed or derived from the Ukrainian language. Some of them may have entered English via Russian, Polish, or Yiddish, among others. They may have originated in another languages, but are used to describe notions related to Ukraine.
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There is one count that puts the English vocabulary at about 1 million words—but that count presumably includes words such as Latin species names, prefixed and suffixed words, scientific terminology, jargon, foreign words of extremely limited English use and technical acronyms. [43] [44] [45] Urdu: 264,000
"Shchedryk" was originally sung on the night of 13 January, New Year's Eve in the Julian Calendar (31 December Old Style), known in Ukraine as Malanka or Shchedry Vechir ("Generous Evening"). The song is an example of a Ukrainian shchedrivka , whilst the English words of "The Little Swallow" identifies it as a koliadka.
Ukrainian is a fusional, nominative–accusative, satellite-framed language. It exhibits T–V distinction, and is null-subject. The canonical word order of Ukrainian is SVO. [106] Other word orders are common due to the free word order enabled by Ukrainian's inflectional system. [citation needed]
Ukrainian orthography is based on the phonemic principle, with one letter generally corresponding to one phoneme. The orthography also has cases in which semantic, historical, and morphological principles are applied. In the Ukrainian alphabet the "Ь" could also be the last letter in the alphabet (this was its official position from 1932 to 1990).
It is referenced: all of the words appear in my Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2004), the majority listed there as Ukrainian in origin (four as Russian and one Polish, but they correspond precisely to words borrowed in parallel from Ukrainian, and are significant in Ukrainian history or culture). —Michael Z. 2006-04-02 00:48 Z