абецадло

Old Ruthenian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish abecadło, from Old Polish abiecadło, obiecadło, from Middle High German abecede, ultimately from Latin abecedārium. First attested in the early 17th century. Compare Russian абеца́дло (abecádlo).

Noun

абецадло • (abecadlo) n inan

1. alphabet (particularly Polish or Latin alphabet)

Descendants

• Ukrainian: абеца́дло (abecádlo) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “абецадло”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 2
• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1982), “абецадло”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 1 (а – биенье), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 56
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1994), “абецадло”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 1 (а – аѳинѧны), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 65

Russian

Alternative forms

• обеца́ло (obɛcálo)

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish abecadło (“alphabet”) of 18th century, from Old Polish obiecadło adapted with suffix -dło. From Middle High German abecede. From the first four letters of the Latin alphabet. Compare Latin abecedārium. Cognate with Ukrainian абеца́дло (abecádlo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɐbɨˈt͡sadɫə] (phonetic respelling: абэца́дло)

Noun

абеца́дло • (abɛcádlo) n inan (genitive абеца́дла, uncountable)

1. (historical) an adaptation of the Polish alphabet used periodically in Ukraine in the 17th-19th centuries.
2. (historical) the musical alphabet

Declension

Declension of абеца́дло (inan sg-only neut-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	singular
nominative	абеца́дло abɛcádlo
genitive	абеца́дла abɛcádla
dative	абеца́длу abɛcádlu
accusative	абеца́дло abɛcádlo
instrumental	абеца́длом abɛcádlom
prepositional	абеца́дле abɛcádle

Related terms

• абецеда́рий (abɛcedárij)

See also

• а́збука (ázbuka), абеве́га (abɛvɛ́ga), алфави́т (alfavít)

References

• Anikin, A. E. (2007) “абецадло”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 1 (A – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 69