калугеръ

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Old East Slavic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Church Slavonic калугеръ (kalugerŭ), from Ancient Greek καλόγηρος (kalógēros).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑˈluɡɛrʊ/→/kaˈluɡɛrʊ/→/kaˈluɡɛːr/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /kɑˈluɡɛrʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /kaˈluɡɛrʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /kaˈluɡɛːr/

  • Hyphenation: ка‧лу‧ге‧ръ

Noun

калугеръ (kalugerŭ) m

  1. monk
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik‎, page 1:
      [Слово] нѣкоѥг[о] [калꙋ]г[е]ра· о чь[тѥнии кн]игъ⁖
      [Slovo] někojeg[o] [kalu]g[e]ra· o čĭ[tjenii kn]igŭ⁖
      The speech of a certain monk on the reading of books.

Declension

Declension of калугеръ (hard o-stem)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative калугеръ
kalugerŭ 		калугера
kalugera 		калугери
kalugeri
Genitive калугера
kalugera 		калугеру
kalugeru 		калугеръ
kalugerŭ
Dative калугеру
kalugeru 		калугерома
kalugeroma 		калугеромъ
kalugeromŭ
Accusative калугеръ
kalugerŭ 		калугера
kalugera 		калугерꙑ
kalugery
Instrumental калугеръмь
kalugerŭmĭ 		калугерома
kalugeroma 		калугерꙑ
kalugery
Locative калугерѣ
kalugerě 		калугеру
kalugeru 		калугерѣхъ
kalugerěxŭ
Vocative калугере
kalugere 		калугера
kalugera 		калугери
kalugeri

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “калугеръ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1183
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