Масленица

See also: масленица

Russian

Горящая Масленица

Alternative forms

• ма́сленица (máslenica) — the festival, not the effigy

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *maslěnica, from *maslěnъjь +‎ *-ica, from *maslo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmas⁽ʲ⁾lʲɪnʲɪt͡sə]

Proper noun

Ма́сленица • (Máslenica) f inan (genitive Ма́сленицы)

1. Maslenitsa, Shrovetide, Butter Week, Crepe Week (the week before Lent, seven weeks before Easter)
2. Lady Maslenitsa (a straw effigy burned on the last day of the Maslenitsa week)

Declension

Declension of Ма́сленица (inan sg-only fem-form ц-stem accent-a) 

	singular
nominative	Ма́сленица Máslenica
genitive	Ма́сленицы Máslenicy
dative	Ма́сленице Máslenice
accusative	Ма́сленицу Máslenicu
instrumental	Ма́сленицей, Ма́сленицею Máslenicej, Másleniceju
prepositional	Ма́сленице Máslenice

Descendants

• → Ingrian: Maslitsa

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*maslěnica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 223