prisiadka

prisiadka
/pris yahd"keuh/, n.
a step in Slavic folk dancing in which the dancer squats on the haunches and kicks out each foot alternately; the characteristic step of the kazachok.
[1935-40; < Russ prisyádka, equiv. to prisyad-, var. s. of prisést' to squat (pri- v. prefix, here marking action done incompletely or temporarily + sest' to sit down, akin to SIT1) + -ka n. suffix; or < Ukrainian prýsyadka, formed in a parallel manner from prysísty to squat]

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