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cybalist@egroups.com, "Torsten Pedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
>who would call their own land a "-
> mark" (frontier)?
The Ukrainians call themselves just so, 'Ukrayintsi'. But the
ethnonym means 'borderers,"markomannen"'. Neighbouring Russians
called them different names (Malorossy 'of Lesser Russia (the
metropolian territory from wich a colonization of the proper (Great)
Russia has begun' officially and Sevriuki 'of the (historical)
Sever'ane tribe', Khokhly 'toupees' etc. informally) up to the XX c.,
when the self-designation 'Ukraintsy' has been adopted.
Sergei