печь

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Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pȅťь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *péktis, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷtis, from *pekʷ-. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic пещь (peštĭ) and Old Polish piec.

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈpɛt͡ɕɪ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈpʲɛt͡ɕɪ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈpʲɛːt͡ɕ/
  • Hyphenation: пе‧чь

Noun

печь (pečĭf

  1. stove
  2. oven
  3. furnace

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Descendants

  • Belarusian: печ (pječ)
  • Russian: печь (pečʹ) (see there for further descendants)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: піч (pič)
  • Ukrainian: піч (pič)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “печь”, 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), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 929

Russian

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Old East Slavic печи (peči), from Proto-Slavic *peťi, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *péktei, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti, from *pekʷ-.

See also English cook, culinary, cuisine, concoct and peptic; also Russian пот (pot, sweat, perspiration), Sanskrit पचति (pácati), Albanian pjek, Tocharian B päk-, Ancient Greek πέσσω (péssō), Latin coquō.

Verb

печь (pečʹimpf (perfective испе́чь or спечь)

  1. to bake
  2. to scorch (only in relation to the Sun or other stars)
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Etymology 2

From Old East Slavic печь (pečĭ), from Proto-Slavic *peťь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *péktis, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷtis, from *pekʷ-. Doublet of пещь (peščʹ), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.

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Noun

печь (pečʹf inan (genitive пе́чи, nominative plural пе́чи, genitive plural пече́й, relational adjective печно́й)

  1. stove
  2. oven
  3. furnace
    кали́льная печьkalílʹnaja pečʹheating/calcining furnace; calciner
  4. kiln
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Further reading

  • печь in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru