Масленица
See also: масленица
Russian
Alternative forms
- ма́сленица (máslenica) (the festival, not the effigy)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *maslěnica, from *maslěnъjь + *-ica, from *maslo.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ма́сленица • (Máslenica) f inan (genitive Ма́сленицы)
- Maslenitsa, Shrovetide, Butter Week, Crepe Week (the week before Lent, seven weeks before Easter)
- Lady Maslenitsa (a straw effigy burned on the last day of the Maslenitsa week)
Declension
Declension of Ма́сленица (inan sg-only fem-form ц-stem accent-a)
singular | |
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nominative | Ма́сленица Máslenica |
genitive | Ма́сленицы Máslenicy |
dative | Ма́сленице Máslenice |
accusative | Ма́сленицу Máslenicu |
instrumental | Ма́сленицей, Ма́сленицею Máslenicej, Másleniceju |
prepositional | Ма́сленице Máslenice |
References
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*maslěnica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 223
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