мыло
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Etymology
Borrowed from Russian мыло (mylo).
Pronunciation
Noun
мыло (məlo)
Derived terms
- мылосиф (məlosif, “soapdish”)
Russian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mydlo, from *myti (“to wash”). By surface analysis, мыть (mytʹ) + -ло (-lo).
Noun
мы́ло • (mýlo) n inan (genitive мы́ла, nominative plural мыла́, genitive plural мыл, relational adjective мы́льный, diminutive мы́льце)
- (usually uncountable) soap
- (usually uncountable) lather
- (slang) e-mail (by phono-semantic matching with English mail)
Declension
Related terms
Descendants
- → Ingrian: muila
- → Karelian: muila
- → Lithuanian: muilas
- → Nivkh: мыло (məlo)
- → Votic: muilõ, mõilõ
- → Yakut: мыыла (mııla)
Further reading
- мыло in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
Etymology 2
Verb
мы́ло • (mýlo)
- neuter singular past indicative imperfective of мыть (mytʹ)