Chortitza
English edit
Etymology edit
Via Plautdietsch or German, from Russian Хо́ртица (Xórtica) (cf. Ukrainian Хо́ртиця (Xórtycja)), the name of Khortytsia (the largest island in the Dnieper River).
Proper noun edit
Chortitza
- A village (or colony of several villages) founded by German- / Mennonite Low German-speaking Mennonites in 1789 in what is now Ukraine.
Translations edit
Chortitza