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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic скорлупа (skorlupa), from Proto-Slavic *skorupa, from *skora (“bast, skin”) + лупить, "peel".
Pronunciation
Noun
скорлупа́ • (skorlupá) f inan (genitive скорлупы́, nominative plural скорлу́пы, genitive plural скорлу́п, diminutive скорлу́пка)
- shell (of an egg or animal), hull
Declension
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “скорлупа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “скорлупа”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 171
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “скорлꙋпа”, 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 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 381