зеркало
Appearance
Even
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian зе́ркало (zérkalo)
Noun
[edit]зеркало (zerkalo)
References
[edit]- Cincius, V. I., Rišes, L. D. (1952) Русско-эвенский словарь [Russian–Even Dictionary], Moscow
Russian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zьrkadlo, from *zьrěti (whence Old Church Slavonic зьрѣти (zĭrěti, “to look at”)) + a suffix originating in Proto-Indo-European *-tlom. Probably a calque of Latin speculum (whence Proto-West Germanic *spēgl, whence German Spiegel and many others). Compare Kashubian szpédżel and zdrzadło.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]зе́ркало • (zérkalo) n inan (genitive зе́ркала, nominative plural зеркала́, genitive plural зерка́л, relational adjective зерка́льный, diminutive зе́ркальце)
- mirror, looking glass
- 1991, Пикник [Picnic], “Это река Ганг [Eto reka Gang]”, in Харакири[1]:
- Когда́ стра́шно ста́нет бога́м, им почу́дится шо́рох в угла́х,
Они́ вспо́мнят тогда́ о себе́ сами́х и полю́бят себя́ в зеркала́х...- Kogdá strášno stánet bogám, im počúditsja šórox v ugláx,
Oní vspómnjat togdá o sebé samíx i poljúbjat sebjá v zerkaláx... - (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Kogdá strášno stánet bogám, im počúditsja šórox v ugláx,
Declension
[edit]Declension of зе́ркало (inan neut-form hard-stem accent-c)
Derived terms
[edit]- зазеркалье n (zazerkalʹje)
- зазерка́льный (zazerkálʹnyj)
- зерка́лить impf (zerkálitʹ), отзерка́лить pf (otzerkálitʹ), отзерка́ливать impf (otzerkálivatʹ)
- подзерка́льник m (podzerkálʹnik)
- Proverbs
- не́чего на зе́ркало пеня́ть, ко́ли ро́жа крива́ (néčevo na zérkalo penjátʹ, kóli róža krivá)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Even: зеркало (zerkalo)
- → Karelian: zirkalo
- → Kildin Sami: зе̄ркал (zierkal)
- → Yakut: сиэркилэ (sierkile)
Further reading
[edit]- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “зеркало”, 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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