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селезень

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Russian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old East Slavic селезень (selezenĭ), cognate to Ukrainian се́лезень (sélezenʹ) and dialectal Serbo-Croatian slezen, slezenjak, slezenka, slezinka, slezenjača, sljez, šjez (drake). The earlier history is uncertain.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsʲelʲɪzʲɪnʲ]

Noun

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се́лезень (sélezenʹm anim (genitive се́лезня, nominative plural се́лезни, genitive plural се́лезней)

  1. drake, male duck

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Антропов, Николай Павлович (2023) “К этимологии русск. селезень”, in Этимология как образ жизни. Коллективная монография к 70-летию академика А.Е. Аникина (in Russian), Saint-Petersburg: Алетейя, →ISBN, pages 136–147
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “селезень”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress