спуд

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic спѫдъ (spǫdŭ, “modius, bushel; vessel of this size”), Russian Church Slavonic спудъ (spudŭ); compare Slovene spọ̑d (“bucket”) (tonal orthography), Polish spąd (“bucket”), from Proto-Slavic [Term?]. More distantly cognate with (and per Trubachev, borrowed from) Middle Low German span (“wooden bucket, dry measure”) (genitive spannes); also cognate with Danish spand (“bucket”), Old Armenian փունդ (pʻund, “vessel, case”), Lithuanian spañgis (“bucket”) (genitive spangė̃; possibly a borrowing from Low German). Eventually from Proto-Indo-European *spondʰos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sput]

Noun

спуд • (spud) m inan (genitive спу́да, nominative plural спу́ды, genitive plural спу́дов)

1. (dated) bushel, vessel (for grain)
2. (dated) cache, vault
3. (dated) heaviness, weight
4. (dated) burden, oppression

Usage notes

• Nowadays, found only in the expressions под спу́дом (pod spúdom, “hidden, secret”), и́з-под спу́да (íz-pod spúda, “out from hiding”).

Declension

Declension of спуд (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	спу́д spúd	спу́ды spúdy
genitive	спу́да spúda	спу́дов spúdov
dative	спу́ду spúdu	спу́дам spúdam
accusative	спу́д spúd	спу́ды spúdy
instrumental	спу́дом spúdom	спу́дами spúdami
prepositional	спу́де spúde	спу́дах spúdax

Derived terms

• подспу́дный (podspúdnyj), подспу́дно (podspúdno)

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “спуд”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress