кувшин

Russian

кувшин

Alternative forms

  • кукши́н (kukšín) dialectal

Etymology

From late Old East Slavic кувшинъ (kuvšinŭ), кушинъ (kušinŭ), interpreted as Lithuanian *kaušinas derived from Lithuanian káušas (ladle, dipper, big spoon) whence also ковш (kovš), formed from káuti (hew, chop out), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *káuˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *kowh₂-, from the root *kewh₂-.

Cognate with Belarusian каўшы́н (kaŭšýn), куўшы́н (kuŭšýn), кушы́н (kušýn), кукшы́н (kukšýn), Ukrainian куші́н (kušín), куши́н (kušýn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kʊfˈʂɨn]
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  • Rhymes: -ɨn

Noun

кувши́н • (kuvšín) m inan (genitive кувши́на, nominative plural кувши́ны, genitive plural кувши́нов)

  1. jug, pitcher

Declension

Descendants

  • Tatar: кувшин (quwşin), кукшин (qukşin), купшин (qupşin)

References

  • Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 594
  • Кипарский, В. (1973) “О балтизмах русского литературного языка [About the Baltisms of the literary Russian language]”, in Baltistica (in Russian), volume 9, number 1, →DOI, page 69 of 67–70
  • Лаучюте, Ю. А. (1982) “каўшын”, in Словарь балтизмов в славянских языках [Dictionary of Baltisms in Slavic languages] (in Russian), Leningrad: Nauka, page 39ab
  • Откупщиков, Ю. В. (1970) “К этимологии лит. káušas, лтш. kaûss „череп, ковш“ [On the etymology of Lithuanian káušas, Latvian kaûss "skull, scoop"]”, in Baltistica (in Russian), volume 6, number 2, →DOI, page 192 of 185–192
  • Трубачёв, Олег Николаевич (a. 2002) Труды по этимологии: Слово · История · Культура (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Языки славянской культуры, published 2008, →ISBN, page 682
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кувшин”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress, pages 397–398
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