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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *krьstъ. Compare крест (krest), a Church Slavic borrowing.
Noun
крёст • (krjost) m inan (genitive креста́, nominative plural кресты́, genitive plural кресто́в)
- (dialectal) cross, crossroad
Derived terms
References
- Филин, Ф. П., editor (1979), “крест (крёст)”, in Slovarʹ russkix narodnyx govorov [Dictionary of Russian Dialects] (in Russian), volume 15, Leningrad: Nauka, Leningrad branch, page 225
- Филин, Ф. П., editor (1979), “крёст”, in Slovarʹ russkix narodnyx govorov [Dictionary of Russian Dialects] (in Russian), volume 15, Leningrad: Nauka, Leningrad branch, page 226