грекъ

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

• кгрекъ (grek), кгрекгъ (greg)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic грькъ (grĭkŭ), from Proto-Slavic *grьkъ, from Vulgar Latin Graecus, from Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós), of uncertain origin.

Noun

грекъ • (hrek) m pers

1. a Greek (person originally from Greece)
2. (religion) an Orthodox (an Orthodox Christian person)

Descendants

• Belarusian: грэк (hrek)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Ґрек (Grek)
• Ukrainian: грек (hrek)

Further reading

• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1986), “грекъ, кгрекгъ, кгрекъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 7 (гляденье – девичество), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 146