почва

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Bulgarian

Pronunciation

  • по́чва: IPA(key): (present indicative or aorist)
  • почва́: IPA(key): (aorist only)

Verb

по́чва (póčva)

  1. third-person singular present indicative of по́чвам (póčvam)

Verb

по́чва or почва́ (póčva or počvá)

  1. second-person singular aorist indicative of по́чвам (póčvam)
  2. third-person singular aorist indicative of по́чвам (póčvam)

Macedonian

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Noun

почва (počvaf (relational adjective почвен)

  1. soil, ground

Declension

Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic подъшьва (podŭšĭva, sole (bottom); foundation), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *šiti (to sew). Doublet of подо́шва (podóšva, sole, (mountain) foot).

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Noun

по́чва (póčvaf inan (genitive по́чвы, nominative plural по́чвы, genitive plural почв, relational adjective по́чвенный)

  1. earth, soil, ground (mixture of sand and organic material)
  2. basis, base, ground

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References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “почва”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “почва”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 62
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “подъшьва”, 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 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 302