восток
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See also: Восток
Russian
Alternative forms
- восто́къ (vostók) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic въстокъ (vŭstokŭ, “rising, east”), displacing the native East Slavic form всток (vstok) (preserved in some dialects); the Old Church Slavonic term is a calque of Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “rising, east”). Related to встать (vstatʹ).
Pronunciation
Noun
восто́к • (vostók) m inan (genitive восто́ка, uncountable)
Declension
Declension of восто́к (inan sg-only masc-form velar-stem accent-a)
Coordinate terms
- (compass points)
| се́веро-за́пад (sévero-západ) норд-ве́ст (nord-vést) |
се́вер (séver) норд (nord) |
се́веро-восто́к (sévero-vostók) норд-о́ст (nord-óst) |
| за́пад (západ) вест (vest) |
|
восто́к (vostók) ост (ost) |
| ю́го-за́пад (júgo-západ) зюйд-ве́ст (zjujd-vést) |
юг (jug) зюйд (zjujd) |
ю́го-восто́к (júgo-vostók) зюйд-о́ст (zjujd-óst) |
Derived terms
- Восто́к (Vostók, “the East, the Orient”)
- восто́чный (vostóčnyj)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “восток”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress