калугеръ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Church Slavonic калугеръ (kalugerŭ), from Ancient Greek καλόγηρος (kalógēros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑˈluɡɛrʊ/→/kaˈluɡɛrʊ/→/kaˈluɡɛːr/

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /kɑˈluɡɛrʊ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /kaˈluɡɛrʊ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /kaˈluɡɛːr/

• Hyphenation: ка‧лу‧ге‧ръ

Noun

калугеръ (kalugerŭ) m

1. monk
   • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik‎^[1], page 1:

     [Слово] нѣкоѥг[о] [калꙋ]г[е]ра· о чь[тѥнии кн]игъ⁖

     [Slovo] někojeg[o] [kalu]g[e]ra· o čĭ[tjenii kn]igŭ⁖

     The speech of a certain monk on the reading of books.

Declension

Declension of калугеръ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	калугеръ kalugerŭ	калугера kalugera	калугери kalugeri
Genitive	калугера kalugera	калугеру kalugeru	калугеръ kalugerŭ
Dative	калугеру kalugeru	калугерома kalugeroma	калугеромъ kalugeromŭ
Accusative	калугеръ kalugerŭ	калугера kalugera	калугерꙑ kalugery
Instrumental	калугеръмь kalugerŭmĭ	калугерома kalugeroma	калугерꙑ kalugery
Locative	калугерѣ kalugerě	калугеру kalugeru	калугерѣхъ kalugerěxŭ
Vocative	калугере kalugere	калугера kalugera	калугери kalugeri

References

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “калугеръ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1183