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Old East Slavic

Etymology

First attested in 1472. Borrowed from an Oghuz language (compare Turkish inci, Azerbaijani inci, Turkmen hünji), from Proto-Common Turkic *yinǯü, ultimately from Middle Chinese 珍珠 (trin tsyu), 真珠 (tsyin tsyu, “true pearls”). Doublet of жьньчюгъ (žĭnĭčjugŭ).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ин‧чи

Noun

инчи (inči) ? (plural only)

  1. pearl
    Synonym: жьньчюгъ (žĭnĭčjugŭ)

Declension

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Descendants

  • Middle Russian: инчи (inči)

Further reading

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “инчи”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ ‎ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1108
  • Barkhudarov, S. G., editor (1979), “инчи”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. (in Russian), issue 6 (зипунъ – иянуарий), Moscow: Nauka, page 246
  • Generalova, E. V., Vasilyeva, O. V., editors (2020), “инчи”, in Словарь обиходного русского языка Московской Руси XVI–XVII вв. (in Russian), numbers 9 (ильм – казнь), Saint Petersburg: Nauka, →ISBN, page 103
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