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Russian
Etymology
Germanic borrowings in the 16th century:
Identical at least in a dressing-sense to German Kugel (“cowl”), together with Ukrainian куль (kulʹ), Belarusian куль (kulʹ), Polish kul, all with meanings partially or wholly identical with the Russian, compare the extension of a meaning “hood covering anything” in German Schlappen, and:
Also identifiable with German Keule and Kugel, note in particular Old Norse kýll, kýl (“bag”) (whence modern Icelandic kýla (“to stuff, to fill, to bag”)), and generally used borrowings Lithuanian kūlỹs (“bundle”), Latvian kūlis (“bundle”), and:
The cod-end of a fishing-net, on the other hand, can be understood as (the related) German Kuhle, Dutch kuil.
Pronunciation
Noun
куль • (kulʹ) m inan (genitive куля́, nominative plural кули́, genitive plural куле́й, relational adjective кулево́й, diminutive кулёк)
- sack
- Synonym: мешо́к (mešók)
- (archaic, dialectal) a cowl or hood
- (archaic, dialectal) a bundle of straw or twigs
- (archaic, dialectal) a cod end of a trawling net
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- Filin, F. P., editor (1981), “куль”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 8 (крада – лящина), Moscow: Nauka, page 116
- Филин, Ф. П., editor (1980), “куль”, in Slovarʹ russkix narodnyx govorov [Dictionary of Russian Dialects] (in Russian), volume 16, Leningrad: Nauka, Leningrad branch, page 72
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1989), “куль”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (Кора – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 136
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “куль”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress