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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic колымо́гъ (kolymógŭ), колимо́гъ (kolimógŭ), колыма́гъ (kolymágŭ), колима́гъ (kolimágŭ), колъма́гъ (kolŭmágŭ), колима́га (kolimága, “wagon, cart; tabernacle, tent”), a Mongolic borrowing seemingly identical to the name of the Kalmyks named after their ancestors’ wagon forts or covered wagons which fell into disuse after the Mongol invasions.
Pronunciation
Noun
колыма́га • (kolymága) f inan (genitive колыма́ги, nominative plural колыма́ги, genitive plural колыма́г)
- cart, wagon, carriage
1880, Николай Лесков , “Глава девятая”, in Несмертельный Голован; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Deathless Golovan, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013:На вы́гоне расположи́лось мно́жество бе́дных пово́зок и колыма́г, представля́вших, одна́ко, во всей свое́й нищете́ дово́льно пёстрое разнообра́зие национа́льного ге́ния и изобрета́тельности.- Na výgone raspoložílosʹ mnóžestvo bédnyx povózok i kolymág, predstavljávšix, odnáko, vo vsej svojéj niščeté dovólʹno pjóstroje raznoobrázije nacionálʹnovo génija i izobretátelʹnosti.
- On the common stood a multitude of poor carts and wagons, which, however, presented in all their indigence a rather motley diversity of national genius and inventiveness.
- (colloquial) jalopy (old, dilapidated car)
Declension
References
- Menges, Karl (1955) “Altajische Lehnwörter im Slavischen”, in Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie (in German), volume 23, pages 327–329
- Vasmer, Max (1950) “Etymologische Beiträge”, in Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie (in German), volume 20, pages 404–405
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “колимо́г”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress