Масленица

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Горящая Масленица

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *maslěnica, from *maslěnъjь +‎ *-ica, from *maslo.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ма́сленица (Máslenicaf inan (genitive Ма́сленицы)

  1. Maslenitsa, Shrovetide, Butter Week, Crepe Week (the week before Lent, seven weeks before Easter)
  2. Lady Maslenitsa (a straw effigy burned on the last day of the Maslenitsa week)

Declension

Descendants

  • Ingrian: Maslitsa

References

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*maslěnica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 223