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

Pronunciation

Noun

почва • (počva) f (relational adjective почвен)

  1. soil, ground

Declension

Declension of почва
singular plural
indefinite почва (počva) почви (počvi)
definite unspecified почвата (počvata) почвите (počvite)
definite proximal почвава (počvava) почвиве (počvive)
definite distal почвана (počvana) почвине (počvine)
vocative почво (počvo) почви (počvi)

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”).

Compare typologically Latin solum (see also English soil) related to solea (whence English sole).

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Noun

по́чва • (póčva) f 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

Declension

Declension of по́чва (inan fem-form hard-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative по́чва
póčva 		по́чвы
póčvy
genitive по́чвы
póčvy 		по́чв
póčv
dative по́чве
póčve 		по́чвам
póčvam
accusative по́чву
póčvu 		по́чвы
póčvy
instrumental по́чвой, по́чвою
póčvoj, póčvoju 		по́чвами
póčvami
prepositional по́чве
póčve 		по́чвах
póčvax

Synonyms

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “почва”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “почва”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (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 ‎ (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 302
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