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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Prussia

means near Russia, the country bordering on Russia. In Neo-Latin, Borussia; in Slavonic, Porussia; po in Slavonic signifying “near.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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