шея
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *šija.
For шея (šeja) — шить (šitʹ) relation, compare typologically долговя́зый (dolgovjázyj) — вяза́ть (vjazátʹ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ше́я • (šéja) f inan (genitive ше́и, nominative plural ше́и, genitive plural шей, relational adjective ше́йный, diminutive ше́йка)
- (anatomy) neck
- 1930, Владимир Набоков [Vladimir Nabokov], chapter 3, in Защита Лужина, Berlin: Слово; English translation from Michael Scammell in collaboration with the author, transl., The Luzhin Defense, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1964:
- «Ну, бу́дем игра́ть во что́-нибудь, – поспе́шно сказа́ла тётя и взяла́ его́ сза́ди за ше́ю. – Кака́я у тебя́ то́ненькая ше́я, одно́й руко́й мо́жно…»
- «Nu, búdem igrátʹ vo štó-nibudʹ, – pospéšno skazála tjótja i vzjalá jevó szádi za šéju. – Kakája u tebjá tónenʹkaja šéja, odnój rukój móžno…»
- “Well, let’s play some game,” said his aunt hurriedly and took him by the neck from behind. “What a thin little neck you have, one can clasp it with one hand.…”
Declension
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[edit]Compound words:
- вертише́йка m anim or f anim (vertišéjka)
- красноше́йка (krasnošéjka)
- кривоше́я f (krivošéja)
- Compound verbs:
- дать по ше́е pf (datʹ po šéje)
- ве́шать хому́т на ше́ю impf (véšatʹ xomút na šéju)
- гнать в ше́ю impf (gnatʹ v šéju)
- намы́лить ше́ю pf (namýlitʹ šéju)
- сиде́ть на ше́е pf (sidétʹ na šéje)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “шея”, 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.
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