ведьма
Appearance
Russian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- вѣ́дьма (vě́dʹma) — pre-1918 spelling
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old East Slavic вѣдьма (vědĭma), from Proto-Slavic *vědьma.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ве́дьма • (védʹma) f anim (genitive ве́дьмы, nominative plural ве́дьмы, genitive plural ведьм, relational adjective ве́дьмин, diminutive ве́дьмочка)
- witch
- (colloquial, derogatory) hag, shrew, beldam, harridan, vixen
- Old Maid (card game)
Declension
[edit]Declension of ве́дьма (anim fem-form hard-stem accent-a)
Derived terms
[edit]- ведьма́к (vedʹmák, “male witch”)
Compounds:
- From ве́дьмин (védʹmin):
- ве́дьмин круг m (védʹmin krug)
Related terms
[edit]- ве́дать impf (védatʹ)
- ведовско́й (vedovskój), ведовство́ n (vedovstvó)
- веду́н m anim (vedún), веду́нья f anim (vedúnʹja)
See also
[edit]- Ба́ба-Яга́ f (Bába-Jagá)
- ве́щий (véščij)
References
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ведьма”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999), “ведьма”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 137
Further reading
[edit]- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “ведать”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
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- Russian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Russian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyd-
- Russian terms inherited from Old East Slavic
- Russian terms derived from Old East Slavic
- Russian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Russian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Russian 2-syllable words
- Russian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Russian terms with audio pronunciation
- Russian lemmas
- Russian nouns
- Russian feminine nouns
- Russian animate nouns
- ru:Occult
- Russian colloquialisms
- Russian derogatory terms
- ru:Card games
- ru:Female people
- Russian hard-stem feminine-form nouns
- Russian hard-stem feminine-form accent-a nouns
- Russian nouns with accent pattern a
