vodyanoy

English

vodyanoy (by Ivan Bilibin)

Alternative forms

• vodyanoi

Etymology

From Russian водяно́й (vodjanój).

Noun

vodyanoy (plural vodyanoys)

1. (Slavic mythology) A type of water sprite from Slavic mythology

Translations

type of water sprite

• Armenian: վոդյանոյ (vodyanoy), ջրոգի (hy) (ǰrogi)
• Belarusian: вадзя́нік m (vadzjánik)
• Bulgarian: во́дник m (vódnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水精 (zh) (shuǐ jīng), 伏葉諾伊／伏叶诺伊 (fúyènuòyī)

• Czech: vodník (cs) m, hastrman (cs) m
• Finnish: vodjanoi, vetehinen (fi)
• French: wodianoï m, vodianoï m
• German: Wassermann (de) m, Wodjanoj m
• Ingrian: erikko
• Japanese: ヴォジャノーイ (vojanōi)
• Korean: 보자노이 (ko) (bojanoi)
• Polish: wodnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: vodianoi m
• Russian: водяно́й (ru) m (vodjanój)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: водењак m, воданој m (from Russian)

  Roman: vodenjak (sh) m, vodanoj m (from Russian)

• Slovak: vodník m
• Spanish: vodník m
• Ukrainian: водя́ник m (vodjányk)

See also

• domovoy