Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1960s
Matryoshka
from матрёшка
- Meaning
- Nested wooden dolls — diminutive of Matryona, a peasant woman's name.
- Source word
- матрёшка
- Route into English
- Late-19th-c. Russian craft (1890s); English by 1960s as Cold War cultural curio.
- Arrived
- 1960s
English borrows.
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