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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch schans.
Pronunciation
Noun
шка́нец • (škánec) m inan (genitive шка́нца, nominative plural шка́нцы, genitive plural шка́нцев, relational adjective шка́нечный)
- (now chiefly in the plural) quarterdeck
1719 October 1, Александр Волков, Юрий Скок, Суровый Синус Финикус. Очерки аварий и катастроф в восточной части Финского залива и акватории Невы, published 2023, page 33:В рапорте вице-адмирала Томаса Сандерса, составленном вечером 1 октября 1719 года, сказано: «… как ветер стал WtN, стащило его с якорем через песок и потопило в глубокой воде, и теперь малым, чем больше, что его шканец, поверх воды».- V raporte vice-admirala Tomasa Sandersa, sostavlennom večerom 1 oktjabrja 1719 goda, skazano: «… kak veter stal WtN, staščilo jevo s jakorem čerez pesok i potopilo v glubokoj vode, i teperʹ malym, čem bolʹše, što jevo škanec, poverx vody».
- In the report of vice-admiral Thomas Sanders of 1 Oct 1719 it is said ”… when the winter became WtN, it drew him away with the anchor over the sand and dunked him into the deep water and now everything small and going beyond his quarterdeck was across the surface.”
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Descendants
Further reading
- шканцы in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шканцы”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress