холм

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Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xъlmъ.

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Noun

холм (xolmm inan (genitive холма́, nominative plural холмы́, genitive plural холмо́в, diminutive хо́лмик)

  1. hill

Usage notes

Accent pattern a (хо́лма, хо́лмы, хо́лмах, etc.) is found in Church Slavonic[1] and classical poetry, e.g. in Pushkin:

1829, Alexander Pushkin, “На холмах Грузии [On the Hills of Georgia]”, in Северные цветы [Northern Flowers], published 1831:
На хо́лмах Гру́зии лежи́т ночна́я мгла́.
Na xólmax Grúzii ležít nočnája mglá.
On the hills of Georgia lies a nightly darkness.

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