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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Russian фитиль, фетиль, ѳитиль, ѳетиль (fitilʹ, fetilʹ, fitilʹ, fetilʹ) (att. since 1610s in R. James' dictionary, also likely related pl. ветили in 1597), borrowed – probably in the context of firearms and artillery technology, where it displaced indigenous жагра (žagra, “tinder, especially a fungal one; match in a matchlock”) – from Ottoman Turkish فتیل (“wick; fuse”) (whence Turkish fitil) from Arabic فَتِيل (fatīl).
Pronunciation
Noun
фити́ль • (fitílʹ) m inan (genitive фитиля́, nominative plural фитили́, genitive plural фитиле́й, relational adjective фити́льный, diminutive фитилёк)
- wick
- fuse
Declension
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “фитиль”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “фитиль”, 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 315
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жагра”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress