вилы

Russian

вилы

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vidla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvʲiɫɨ]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ви́лы • (víly) f inan pl (genitive вил, plural only)

1. pitchfork, digging fork

Declension

Declension of ви́лы (inan pl-only fem-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	plural
nominative	ви́лы víly
genitive	ви́л víl
dative	ви́лам vílam
accusative	ви́лы víly
instrumental	ви́лами vílami
prepositional	ви́лах vílax

Derived terms

Compounds:

• ви́лами по воде́ (vílami po vodé)

Related terms

• ви́лка f (vílka)
• вилова́тый (vilovátyj)
• разви́лка f (razvílka)

Compound words:

• вилоро́г m anim (viloróg)

Descendants

• → Komi-Permyak: вила (vila)
• → Kildin Sami: вилы (vily)

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “вила”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999), “вилы”, 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 151
• Shansky, N. M., editor (1968), “вилы”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, number 3 (В), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 98
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004), “вилы”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989), “вилы”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 59

Further reading

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “вила”, 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.