уезд

Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic уѣздъ (ujězdŭ), from *u- (compare Russian у- (u-)) + *jězdъ, deverbal of *jězditi (compare Russian е́здить (jézditʹ)). Compare Old Polish ujazd (“lawful circuit around one's land for the purposes of determining the borders”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʊˈjest]

Noun

уе́зд • (ujézd) m inan (genitive уе́зда, nominative plural уе́зды, genitive plural уе́здов)

1. (historical) uyezd; district (administrative unit in the Russian Empire before 1917, also used in reference to some foreign administrative units)
2. district in Japan (Russian translation of 郡, now mainly used as a term for grouping towns or villages in a small area of a prefecture)

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	уе́зд ujézd	уе́зды ujézdy
genitive	уе́зда ujézda	уе́здов ujézdov
dative	уе́зду ujézdu	уе́здам ujézdam
accusative	уе́зд ujézd	уе́зды ujézdy
instrumental	уе́здом ujézdom	уе́здами ujézdami
prepositional	уе́зде ujézde	уе́здах ujézdax

Derived terms

• уе́здный (ujézdnyj)

Descendants

• Kazakh: үйез (üiez)

References

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