глаз
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Russian
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Alternative forms
- глазъ (glaz) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic глазъ (glazŭ, “ball, eye”), from Proto-Slavic *glazъ (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʰ)el- (“round, spherical, stone”).
Pronunciation
Noun
глаз • (glaz) m inan (genitive гла́за, nominative plural глаза́, genitive plural глаз, relational adjective глазно́й, diminutive глазёнки or гла́зик or глазо́к, augmentative глази́ще)
- eye
- Synonym: (dated, poetic or in set expressions) о́ко (óko)
- 1913, Максим Горький, “II”, in Детство; English translation from Ronald Wilks, transl., My Childhood, 1966:
- Я хорошо видел, что дед следит за мною умными и зоркими зелёными глазами, и боялся его.
- Ja xorošo videl, što ded sledit za mnoju umnymi i zorkimi zeljónymi glazami, i bojalsja jevo.
- I could see all too clearly that Grandfather was in the habit of following me with his clever, sharp-sighted green eyes, and for this I was afraid of him.
- eyesight
- view, opinion
Usage notes
- Note on irregular forms — глаза́ (glazá) is actually an old nominative dual form. The genitive plural in глаз (glaz) is also an archaic form.
- In the set expression с глазу на глаз, the word глазу is in a different genitive case.
Declension
Declension of глаз (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-c irreg)
Derived terms
- глаза́стый (glazástyj)
- глазе́ть (glazétʹ)
- глазоме́р (glazomér)
- гла́зки (glázki)
- глазу́нья (glazúnʹja)
- де́лать больши́е глаза́ (délatʹ bolʹšíje glazá)
- за глаза́ (za glazá)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глаз”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glazъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 117