огонь

See also: огон

Russian

Alternative forms

• огнь (ognʹ) — old poetic

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic огнь (ognĭ), from Proto-Slavic *ogňь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ugnis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis. Cognate with Latvian uguns, Latin ignis (whence English ignition and igneous, Latin borrowings), Sanskrit अग्नि (agní), Albanian e enjte. Compare also Hittite 𒀀𒀝𒉌𒅖 (a-ak-ni-iš), an Indo-Aryan borrowing. Doublet of Агни (Agni).

The second o-letter is not from an ъ-extra-short sound, but has the same origin as in extra sounds in у́голь (úgolʹ) and во́семь (vósemʹ). Because of it, the original stress was not ого́нь, but о́гонь. Anyway, the original stress today is probably not preserved in any dialect.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈɡonʲ]

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Noun

ого́нь • (ogónʹ) m inan (genitive огня́, nominative plural огни́, genitive plural огне́й, relational adjective огнево́й or о́гненный, diminutive огонёк)

1. fire (also figurative)
2. light
3. fire (of weapons)

Declension

Declension of ого́нь (inan masc-form soft-stem accent-b reduc) 

	singular	plural
nominative	ого́нь ogónʹ	огни́ ogní
genitive	огня́ ognjá	огне́й ognéj
dative	огню́ ognjú	огня́м ognjám
accusative	ого́нь ogónʹ	огни́ ogní
instrumental	огнём ognjóm	огня́ми ognjámi
prepositional	огне́ ogné	огня́х ognjáx

Pre-reform declension of ого́нь (inan masc-form soft-stem accent-b reduc) 

	singular	plural
nominative	ого́нь ogónʹ	огни́ ogní
genitive	огня́ ognjá	огне́й ognéj
dative	огню́ ognjú	огня́мъ ognjám
accusative	ого́нь ogónʹ	огни́ ogní
instrumental	огнёмъ ognjóm	огня́ми ognjámi
prepositional	огнѣ́ ogně́	огня́хъ ognjáx

Synonyms

• костёр (kostjór)
• жар (žar)
• пла́мя (plámja)
• пыл (pyl)
• свет (svet)
• стрельба́ (strelʹbá)

Antonyms

• лёд (ljod)

Derived terms

• огнеопа́сный (ogneopásnyj)
• огнепокло́нник (ognepoklónnik)
• огнестре́льный (ognestrélʹnyj)
• огнетуши́тель (ognetušítelʹ)

Interjection

ого́нь • (ogónʹ)

1. Fire! (command issued to order people to shoot)

See also

• горе́ть impf (gorétʹ)
• пожа́р m (požár)