ковёр
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Russian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- ковёръ (kovjór) – Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology[edit]
Jooseppi Julius Mikkola, quoted by Vasmer and Karl Brugmann[1], asserts that it is from Old Norse kǫgurr[2].
A Turkic origin (< Proto-Turkic *köbüŕ) has also been theorised. Compare Romanian covor (<Russian), Slovak and Czech koberec, Polish kobierzec, archaic Bulgarian губер (guber).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ковёр • (kovjór) m inan (genitive ковра́, nominative plural ковры́, genitive plural ковро́в, relational adjective ковро́вый, diminutive ко́врик)
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- ковёрный (kovjórnyj)
Related terms[edit]
- ковёр-самолёт (kovjór-samoljót)
- ковроли́н (kovrolín)
Descendants[edit]
- → Yakut: көбүөр (köbüör)
References[edit]
- ^ Mémoires de la société néo-philologique à Helsingfors I., S. 8, cited in Indogermanische Forschungen, Karl Brugmann: „Unter dem Titel Etymologisches weist Mikkola einige neue germanische Wörter im Finnischen nach und deutet slav. kovъrъ (Teppich) aus anord. kögurr.“
- ^ Jahresbericht über die Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete der germanischen Philologie, B. 7, S. 23: „slav. kovъrъ Teppich; an kögurr id“
Further reading[edit]
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ковер”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
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