тень

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Mator

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Etymology

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From Proto-Samoyedic *cën, from Proto-Uralic *sëne.

Noun

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тень (transliteration needed)

  1. sinew

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Russian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old East Slavic тѣнь (těnĭ), from Proto-Slavic *těnь.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [tʲenʲ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -enʲ

Noun

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тень (tenʹf inan (genitive те́ни, nominative plural те́ни, genitive plural тене́й, relational adjective тенево́й)

  1. shade
  2. shadow
    • 1972, Братья Стругацкие [Arkady and Boris Strugatsky], chapter 1, in Пикник на обочине, Ленинград: Аврора; English translation from Olena Bormashenko, transl., Roadside Picnic, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2012:
      Не понра́вилась мне э́та покры́шка. Тень от неё кака́я-то ненорма́льная. Со́лнце нам в спи́ну, а тень к нам протяну́лась.
      Ne ponrávilasʹ mne éta pokrýška. Tenʹ ot nejó kakája-to nenormálʹnaja. Sólnce nam v spínu, a tenʹ k nam protjanúlasʹ.
      I don’t like the look of that tire. There’s something wrong with its shadow. The sun is at our backs, but the shadow is stretching toward us.
  3. vestige, particle, atom, hint
  4. (in the plural) eye shadow

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Noun

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тень (tenʹf anim or f inan (genitive те́ни, nominative plural те́ни, genitive plural те́ней or тене́й)

  1. apparition, phantom, ghost

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