сургуч

Russian

Alternative forms

• сургу́чъ (surgúč) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Etymology

Mid-17th century from a Turkic language which compounded the elements represented in Modern and Ottoman Turkish as صیر (sır, “varnish, glaze, enamel”) + ـغج (-gaç, -gıç, -geç, -giç).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sʊrˈɡut͡ɕ]

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Noun

сургу́ч • (surgúč) m inan (genitive сургуча́, nominative plural сургучи́, genitive plural сургуче́й, relational adjective сургу́чный)

1. sealing wax
   • 1860, Иван Тургенев, “III”, in Первая любовь; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., First Love, 1897:

     В моё отсутствие матушка получила от новой своей соседки письмо на серой бумаге, запечатанной бурым сургучом, какой употребляется только на почтовых повестках да на пробках дешёвого вина.

     V mojó otsutstvije matuška polučila ot novoj svojej sosedki pisʹmo na seroj bumage, zapečatannoj burym surgučom, kakoj upotrebljajetsja tolʹko na počtovyx povestkax da na probkax dešóvovo vina.

     In my absence my mother had received from her new neighbour a letter on grey paper, sealed with brown wax, such as is only used in notices from the post-office or on the corks of bottles of cheap wine.

Declension

Declension of сургу́ч (inan masc-form sibilant-stem accent-b) 

	singular	plural
nominative	сургу́ч surgúč	сургучи́ surgučí
genitive	сургуча́ surgučá	сургуче́й surgučéj
dative	сургучу́ surgučú	сургуча́м surgučám
accusative	сургу́ч surgúč	сургучи́ surgučí
instrumental	сургучо́м surgučóm	сургуча́ми surgučámi
prepositional	сургуче́ surgučé	сургуча́х surgučáx

Descendants

• → Belarusian: сургу́ч (surhúč)
• → Ukrainian: сургу́ч (surhúč)

Further reading

• Krysko, V. B., editor (2011), “сургучъ”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.]‎^[1] (in Russian), numbers 29 (сулегъ – тольмиже), Moscow: Nauka, Azbukovnik, →ISBN, page 48
• сургуч in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru