плющ

плющ {pljušč} [m] = ivy in Ukrainian

Ukrainian language (like Russian, Belarusian, Rusyn, Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian) uses a variant of the Cyrillic script. That script invented a letter “щ” (used by Ukrainian, Russian, Rusyn and Bulgarian variants) to represent consonant cluster romanised as “shch”. Belarusian, Serbian and Macedonian use digraph “шч” to write down that cluster. Most of other Slavic languages, using the Latin script, have letters “šč” and Polish use “szcz”, like in the cognate “bluszcz” (ivy).

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