уезд

Russian

Alternative forms

• уѣ́здъ (ujě́zd) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic уѣздъ (ujězdŭ), from *u- (compare Russian у- (u-)) + *jězdъ, deverbal of *ězditi (compare Russian е́здить (jézditʹ)). Compare Old Polish ujazd (“lawful circuit around one's land for the purposes of determining the borders”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʊˈjest]

Noun

уе́зд • (ujézd) m inan (genitive уе́зда, nominative plural уе́зды, genitive plural уе́здов, relational adjective уе́здный)

1. (historical) uyezd; district (administrative unit in the Russian Empire before 1917)
2. administrative region of various countries, including Estonia, Lithuania, People's Republic of China, North and South Korea (county) and Japan (district, 郡)

Declension

Declension of уе́зд (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	уе́зд ujézd	уе́зды ujézdy
genitive	уе́зда ujézda	уе́здов ujézdov
dative	уе́зду ujézdu	уе́здам ujézdam
accusative	уе́зд ujézd	уе́зды ujézdy
instrumental	уе́здом ujézdom	уе́здами ujézdami
prepositional	уе́зде ujézde	уе́здах ujézdax

Coordinate terms

• пове́т (povét) (sometimes used in Ukraine and Poland during Tsarist rule)

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: уезд (uezd)
• → Czech: ujezd
• → Dutch: oejezd
• → English: uyezd
• → Esperanto: ujezdo
• → Finnish: ujesti
• → French: ouïezd
• → German: Ujesd
• → Greek: ουγέστ (ougést)
• → Hungarian: ujezd
• → Czech: uezd
• → Japanese: ウエズド
• → Kazakh: үйез (üiez)
• → Polish: ujezd
• → Romanian: uezd
• → Tatar: өяз (öyaz)
• → Turkish: uyezd
• → Uzbek: uyezd
• → Spanish: uyezd

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “уезд”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress