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According to Professor Flier, it derives from the Polish word ukraina, which also means border-land.
'Not So Free at Last' Potichnyj, Peter J. 1993
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The earliest attestations of the word ukraina are glossed "borderland."
'Not So Free at Last' Flier, Michael S. 1993
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Cxu eblas ripeti la samon en Esperanto, angla, germana, rusa, ukraina aux hispana?
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(Incidentally, Brumberg's derivation of Ukraine from okraina instead of ukraina reflects a long discredited etymology, the former word being of strictly Russian origin and first attested in the Russian Academy dictionary of 1847.)
'Not So Free at Last' Flier, Michael S. 1993
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