The Anglish Moot
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So I've seen the leaf of the ethels named as Borderland and White Russland, so, as a slavic speechwritlorer, I'd say that we must rename them according to their derivations, which would seem more etymologically correct (and somewhat more politically-correct maybe).


About Ukraine name[]

So, the suggestion of renaming Ukraine to Borderland was suggested, since protoslavic root -krajь- means border, but in Ukrainian, word країна/krajina means country/ethel/land, and particle у/u means in/inside, so I'd suggest to rename Ukraine from Borderland to something like Insideland or Inethel.

About Belarus name[]

So, the -rus- part isn't exactly the same as in Russland, they have different historical roots. I'd suggest to rename it to White Ruthenland or White Rusynland.

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