смерч
Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic смьрьчь (smĭrĭčĭ, “cloud”). Cognates include сморка́ть (smorkátʹ, “to blow one's nose”), морок (morok, “darkness, cloud, fog”) and мрак (mrak, “darkness”)
Pronunciation
Noun
смерч • (smerč) m inan (genitive сме́рча, nominative plural сме́рчи, genitive plural сме́рчей)
Declension
Declension of смерч (inan masc-form sibilant-stem accent-a)
Synonyms
- торна́до n (tornádo)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “смерч”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Categories:
- Russian terms inherited from Old East Slavic
- Russian terms derived from Old East Slavic
- Russian 1-syllable words
- Russian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Russian lemmas
- Russian nouns
- Russian masculine nouns
- Russian inanimate nouns
- ru:Meteorology
- Russian sibilant-stem masculine-form nouns
- Russian sibilant-stem masculine-form accent-a nouns
- Russian nouns with accent pattern a
- ru:Weather