обдешень

Russian

Etymology

According to Anikin, possibly related to the Indo-European cognates of Proto-Slavic *desnъ(jь) (“right”). Perhaps borrowed from the Baltic cognate: compare Lithuanian dẽšinas (“right”). For the meaning "south-east" Anikin compares Sanskrit दक्षिण (dákṣiṇa, “right; south”) and Irish deas (“right; to the south”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɐbdʲɪˈʂɛnʲ]

Noun

обдеше́нь • (obdešénʹ) m inan (genitive обдеше́ня, nominative plural обдеше́ни, genitive plural обдеше́ней)

1. (dialectal, Pskov) a south-easterly wind

References

• Anikin, A. E. (2007) “абдешень”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 1 (A – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 69
• “обдеше́нь”, in Pskovskij oblastnoj slovarʹ s istoričeskimi dannymi [Regional Pskovian Dictionary With Historical Data]‎^[1] (in Russian), volume 22, Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg University Press, 2011, page 102