сургуч
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- сургу́чъ (surgúč) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
[edit]Mid-17th century from a Turkic language which compounded the elements represented in Modern and Ottoman Turkish as صیر (sır, “varnish, glaze, enamel”) + ـغج (-gaç, -gıç, -geç, -giç).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]сургу́ч • (surgúč) m inan (genitive сургуча́, nominative plural сургучи́, genitive plural сургуче́й, relational adjective сургу́чный)
- sealing wax
- 1860, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “III”, in Первая любовь; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., First Love, 1897:
- В моё́ отсу́тствие ма́тушка получи́ла от но́вой свое́й сосе́дки письмо́ на се́рой бума́ге, запеча́танной бу́рым сургучо́м, како́й употребля́ется то́лько на почто́вых пове́стках да на про́бках дешё́вого вина́.
- V mojó otsútstvije mátuška polučíla ot nóvoj svojéj sosédki pisʹmó na séroj bumáge, zapečátannoj búrym surgučóm, kakój upotrebljájetsja tólʹko na počtóvyx povéstkax da na próbkax dešóvovo viná.
- In my absence my mother had received from her new neighbour a letter on grey paper, sealed with brown wax, such as is only used in notices from the post-office or on the corks of bottles of cheap wine.
Declension
[edit]Declension of сургу́ч (inan masc-form sibilant-stem accent-b)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Krysko, V. B., editor (2011), “сургучъ”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 29 (сулегъ – тольмиже), Moscow: Nauka, Azbukovnik, →ISBN, page 48
- сургуч in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
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