Tjernobyl

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish Tjernobyl or Swedish Tjernobyl.

Proper noun

Tjernobyl

1. (non-native speakers' English) Chernobyl (a city in Ukraine)
   • 1997 July 14, Lars Magnusson, “Global Worries (was: global warming)”, in talk.environment‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-03:

     OK, living in the reinder belt of Scandinavia, the weapon tests hasn't poisoned us that much and the plutonium hasn't been that much of a problem, but jee, you shure has dug you head into the ground like a ostridge. Have you never heard of a fishy place called Tjernobyl. That bastard is still giving people here cancer. Since we have less of the shit called Strontium 90 ( not as poisones as plutonium, but shure as deadly), they every year sends a lot of cancerous children from the area around Tjernobyl to us for a "clean" summer holiday.

   • 1998 July 6, Mare, “Unmentioned abuse”, in alt.talk.bestiality‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-03:

     How many new things have we found (virus or bacteria doesn't matter) and still more are coming, AIDS? do you belive^[sic] it has been there always? do you remember Tjernobyl? nothing to do with virus or bacteria, but what happened? I would say humans stupidity (money again) give them some not so hightech equipment that doesn't work 100% and then let some ppl that don't know what it is use it.

   • 2003 May 9, Torbjörn Svensson Diaz, “Evolutionar Leap in the Tjernobyl Area”, in sci.bio.evolution‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-03:

     I have a couple of questions regarding evoultionary pace, ionizing radiation and Tjernobyl. I'd be very grateful if anyone would take the time to answer these questions.

Danish

Proper noun

Tjernobyl

1. Chernobyl (a city in Ukraine)

Swedish

Proper noun

Tjernobyl n (genitive Tjernobyls)

1. Chernobyl (a city in Ukraine)