щеколда
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Alternative forms
[edit]- чеко́лда (čekólda)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Steckholz (“bolt”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]щеко́лда • (ščekólda) f inan (genitive щеко́лды, nominative plural щеко́лды, genitive plural щеко́лд)
- latch, catch, pawl (fastening for a door or window)
- 1847, Фёдор Достоевский [Fyodor Dostoevsky], “Часть первая. II”, in Хозяйка; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., The Landlady, 1914:
- Стару́ха, ша́мкая и что́-то ворча́ про себя́, отвори́ла ему́ дверь, опя́ть заперла́ её на щеко́лду и поле́зла на печь, на кото́рой дожива́ла свой век.
- Starúxa, šámkaja i štó-to vorčá pro sebjá, otvoríla jemú dverʹ, opjátʹ zaperlá jejó na ščekóldu i polézla na pečʹ, na kotóroj doživála svoj vek.
- The old woman, mumbling and grumbling to herself, opened the door to him, fastened it again with the latch, and again climbed on the stove where she spent her life.
Declension
[edit]Declension of щеко́лда (inan fem-form hard-stem accent-a)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | щеко́лда ščekólda |
щеко́лды ščekóldy |
genitive | щеко́лды ščekóldy |
щеко́лд ščekóld |
dative | щеко́лде ščekólde |
щеко́лдам ščekóldam |
accusative | щеко́лду ščekóldu |
щеко́лды ščekóldy |
instrumental | щеко́лдой, щеко́лдою ščekóldoj, ščekóldoju |
щеко́лдами ščekóldami |
prepositional | щеко́лде ščekólde |
щеко́лдах ščekóldax |
References
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1942) “Etymologisches [щеко́лда + кали́тка]”, in Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie[1] (in German), volume 18, pages 59–60
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “щеколда”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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