As adjectives the difference between slavic and rusyn
is that slavic is of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European language associated with them while Rusyn is of or pertaining to the Rusyn people, culture, or language.
As a noun Rusyn is
member of a people living in the eastern Carpathian Mountains, in part of western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland and north-eastern Slovakia.
As a proper noun Rusyn is
east Slavic language (Ukrainian dialect) spoken by Rusyns.
slavic
Alternative forms
* (abbreviation):
Adjective
(-)
Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European language associated with them.
Synonyms
* Slavonic, Sclavonic
Anagrams
*
rusyn
English
Noun
(
en noun)
Member of a people living in the eastern Carpathian Mountains, in part of western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland and north-eastern Slovakia.
(archaic) ethnonym for East Slavic people - any of Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, an inhabitant of Kievan Rus, Muscovy, etc., an Orthodox, East Slavic inhabitant of .
Proper noun
(
en proper noun)
East Slavic language (Ukrainian dialect) spoken by Rusyns.
Adjective
(
en adjective)
Of or pertaining to the people, culture, or language.
Related terms
* Ruthenian
* Carpathian Ruthenia
* Carpatho-Rusyn
* Rus
* Russian
