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западник

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Russian

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Etymology

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за́пад (západ) +‎ -ник (-nik), since the 1840s.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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за́падник (západnikm anim (genitive за́падника, nominative plural за́падники, genitive plural за́падников)

  1. (historical) Westernizer

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Belarusian: захо́днік (zaxódnik) (calque)
  • Ukrainian: за́хідник (záxidnyk) (calque)

See also

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References

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  • западник in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
  • Shansky, N. M., editor (1975), “западник”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, number 6 (З), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 51