инчи

Old East Slavic

Etymology

First attested in 1472. Borrowed from an Oghuz language (compare Turkish inci, Azerbaijani inci, Turkmen hünji), from Common Turkic *yinǯü, ultimately from Middle Chinese 珍珠 (ʈˠiɪn t͡ɕɨo), 真珠 (t͡ɕiɪn t͡ɕɨo, “true pearls”). Doublet of жьньчюгъ (žĭnĭčjugŭ).

Pronunciation

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /jint͡ɕi/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /jint͡ɕi/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /jint͡ɕi/
• Hyphenation: ин‧чи

Noun

инчи (inči) ? (plural only)

1. pearl

   Synonym: жьньчюгъ (žĭnĭčjugŭ)

Declension

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Descendants

• Middle Russian: инчи (inči)

Further reading

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “инчи”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1108
• Barkhudarov, S. G., editor (1979), “инчи”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.]‎^[2] (in Russian), numbers 6 (зипунъ – иянуарий), Moscow: Nauka, page 246
• Generalova, E. V., Vasilyeva, O. V., editors (2020), “инчи”, in Словарь обиходного русского языка Московской Руси XVI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Quotidian Russian of Muscovite Russia the 16ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), numbers 9 (ильм – казнь), Saint Petersburg: Nauka, →ISBN, page 103