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Russian
Pronunciation
Noun
о́тпрыск • (ótprysk) m inan or m anim (genitive о́тпрыска, nominative plural о́тпрыски, genitive plural о́тпрысков)
- (inanimate, botany) offshoot
- Hypernym: побе́г (pobég)
- (animate, archaic, now ironic) offspring
Declension
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “прыскать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “прыскать”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 77
- Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “отпрыск”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
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