Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1880s
Dacha
from дача (dacha)
- Meaning
- A summer country house — historically granted by the tsar (from *dat'*, to give).
- Source word
- дача (dacha)
- Route into English
- Russian aristocratic and middle-class cultural staple → English via 19th-c. travel writing.
- Arrived
- 1880s
English borrows.
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