оземь
Russian
FWOTD – 5 July 2015
Alternative forms
- о земь (o zemʹ), об земь (ob zemʹ) — obsolete
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ob zemь, the latter part an alternative form of *zemľa (“earth, land”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈozʲɪmʲ]
- Homophone: озимь (ozimʹ)
Adverb
о́земь • (ózemʹ)
- (poetic) against the ground
- 1872, Лев Толстой (Leo Tolstoy), Кавказский пленник [Prisoner of the Caucasus]:
- Уда́рилась ло́шадь о́земь со всего́ ма́ху,—навали́лась Жи́лину на́ ногу.
- Udárilasʹ lóšadʹ ózemʹ so vsevó máxu,—navalílasʹ Žílinu ná nogu.
- The horse hit the ground with all its weight, and fell on Zhilin's leg.
See also
- на́земь (názemʹ)
References
- Petrova, Z. M., editor (2006), “оземь”, in Словарь русского языка XVIII века [Dictionary of the Russian Language 18th century] (in Russian), volume 16, Saint Petersburg: Nauka, page 212
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*ob zьmь, *ob zьmi”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 26 (*novoukъ(jь) – *obgorditi), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 85
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