куль

See also: кӯль and Appendix:Variations of "kul"

Ket

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *kʰuλʌ ~ *kʰuɬʲʌ (“beard”). The disyllabic variant can be traced back to Proto-Yeniseian *kʰuɬʌpʰ ~ *kʰuλʌɬʌpʰ (“beard”), a later compound also reflected by the distantly related Arin, Assan, Kott and Pumpokol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuˑlʲ˧], [kuˑɮʲ˧], [kulʲ˩˧.ub̥˥˩], [kuɮʲ˩˧.up˥˩]

Noun

куль ~ кулюп (kūlʲ ~ kùlub) n (plural куляӈ)

1. beard, mustache

Usage notes

• Also variably recorded as кулюуп (kùluːb, [kuɮʲ˩˧.uːp˥˧ ~ ku.ɮʲuːp˩˥˧]) in VWdJS.

Further reading

• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 450, 459
• Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 244-245, 246

Russian

Etymology

Germanic borrowings in the 16th century:

Identical at least in a dressing-sense to German Kugel (“cowl”), together with Ukrainian куль (kulʹ), Belarusian куль (kulʹ), Polish kul, all with meanings partially or wholly identical with the Russian, compare the extension of a meaning “hood covering anything” in German Schlappen, and:

Also identifiable with German Keule and Kugel, note in particular Old Norse kýll, kýl (“bag”) (whence modern Icelandic kýla (“to stuff, to fill, to bag”)), and generally used borrowings Lithuanian kūlỹs (“bundle”), Latvian kūlis (“bundle”), and:

The cod-end of a fishing-net, on the other hand, can be understood as (the related) German Kuhle, Dutch kuil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kulʲ]

Noun

куль • (kulʹ) m inan (genitive куля́, nominative plural кули́, genitive plural куле́й, relational adjective кулево́й, diminutive кулёк)

1. sack

   Synonym: мешо́к (mešók)

2. (archaic, dialectal) a cowl or hood
3. (archaic, dialectal) a bundle of straw or twigs
4. (archaic, dialectal) a cod end of a trawling net

Declension

Declension of куль (inan masc-form soft-stem accent-b) 

	singular	plural
nominative	ку́ль kúlʹ	кули́ kulí
genitive	куля́ kuljá	куле́й kuléj
dative	кулю́ kuljú	куля́м kuljám
accusative	ку́ль kúlʹ	кули́ kulí
instrumental	кулём kuljóm	куля́ми kuljámi
prepositional	куле́ kulé	куля́х kuljáx

Derived terms

Compounds:

• From кулёк (kuljók):
  • из кулька́ в рого́жку (iz kulʹká v rogóžku)

Descendants

• → German: Kule f, Kulle f, Kull m, Kuhl m, Kul f
• → Ingrian: kuli, kulja
• → Yakut: куул (kuul)

References

• Filin, F. P., editor (1981), “куль”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 8 (крада – лящина), Moscow: Nauka, page 116
• Филин, Ф. П., editor (1980), “куль”, in Slovarʹ russkix narodnyx govorov [Dictionary of Russian Dialects] (in Russian), volume 16, Leningrad: Nauka, Leningrad branch, page 72
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1989), “куль”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (Кора – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 136
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “куль”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Further reading

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