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Etymology

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Inherited from Old East Slavic, from Old Polish Bukowina or perhaps from Romanian Bucovina from Old Polish Bukowina, from bukowina (beech forest), probably independently formed[1] from buk (beech) +‎ -ow- +‎ -ina (a now-obsolete suffix appended to trees to form nouns meaning "forest of...").

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Букови́на (Bukovínaf inan (genitive Букови́ны)

  1. Bukovina (a historical region in Eastern Europe)

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  • Armenian: Բուկովինա (Bukovina)

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  1. ^ For the wide variation of the meanings given for hypothetical descendants of *bukovina vide Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bukovina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 89

Ukrainian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old East Slavic, from Old Polish Bukowina or perhaps from Romanian Bucovina from Old Polish Bukowina, from bukowina (beech forest), probably independently formed[1] from buk (beech) +‎ -ow- +‎ -ina (a now-obsolete suffix appended to trees to form nouns meaning "forest of...").

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Proper noun

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Букови́на (Bukovýnaf inan (genitive Букови́ни, uncountable)

  1. Bukovina (a historical region in Eastern Europe)

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ For the wide variation of the meanings given for hypothetical descendants of *bukovina vide Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bukovina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 89

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