еловый

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Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *edlovъ. By surface analysis, ель (jelʹ) +‎ -о́вый (-óvyj)

Pronunciation

Adjective

ело́вый (jelóvyj)

  1. (relational) spruce, fir
    ело́вый лесjelóvyj lesspruce forest
    • 1875, Николай Лесков [Nikolai Leskov], “Глава десятая”, in На краю света; English translation from Alfred Edward Chamot, transl., On the Edge of the World, 1923:
      В одно́м ме́сте я по́днял на снегу́ ело́вую ши́шку. Снача́ла ду́мал, не кедро́вая ли и нет ли в ней оре́шков, но оказа́лось про́сто-на́просто обыкнове́нная ело́вая ши́шка.
      V odnóm méste ja pódnjal na snegú jelóvuju šíšku. Snačála dúmal, ne kedróvaja li i net li v nej oréškov, no okazálosʹ prósto-náprosto obyknovénnaja jelóvaja šíška.
      At one place I picked up from the snow a fir cone. I thought at first it might be a cedar cone, and would contain nuts, but it proved to be a simple fir cone.
    • 1930, Владимир Набоков [Vladimir Nabokov], chapter 1, in Защита Лужина; English translation from Michael Scammell in collaboration with the author, transl., The Luzhin Defense, New York, 1964:
      Ста́нция находи́лась в двух вёрстах от уса́дьбы, там, где доро́га, гу́лко и гла́дко пройдя́ сквозь ело́вый бор, пересека́ла петербу́ргское шоссе́ и текла́ да́льше, че́рез ре́льсы, под шлагба́ум, в неизве́стность.
      Stáncija naxodílasʹ v dvux vjórstax ot usádʹby, tam, gde doróga, gúlko i gládko projdjá skvozʹ jelóvyj bor, peresekála peterbúrgskoje šossé i teklá dálʹše, čérez rélʹsy, pod šlagbáum, v neizvéstnostʹ.
      The station was about a mile and a half from the manor, at a point where the road, after passing smoothly and resonantly through a fir wood, cut across the St. Petersburg highway and flowed farther, across the rails, beneath a barrier and into the unknown.

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