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Russian
Etymology
Multiple proposals exist. It could be onomatopoeic equivalent to Polish chełst, chełstać, it could be borrowed from Middle High German hulst f (“covering, sheath”), another derivation from Proto-Germanic *huljaną (“to cover”) as *hulistrą, or secondarily related to that if hulft, hulfter, from which modern German Halfter, is the original. The Finnish fabric name hursti may be borrowed from Russian.
Pronunciation
Noun
холст • (xolst) m inan (genitive холста́, nominative plural холсты́, genitive plural холсто́в, relational adjective холщо́вый)
- canvas
- sackcloth, burlap
Declension
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “холст”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress