обыкновенный

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Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obyknovenъ. By surface analysis, обыкнове́ние (obyknovénije) +‎ -ный (-nyj).

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Adjective

обыкнове́нный (obyknovénnyj) (comparative (по)обыкнове́ннее or (по)обыкнове́нней, adverb обыкнове́нно)

  1. usual, ordinary, habitual
    • 1863, Николай Чернышевский [Nikolay Chernyshevsky], “III”, in Что делать?; English translation from Nathan Haskell Dole and Simon S. Skidelsky, transl., What Is to Be Done?, 1886:
      Я употреби́л обыкнове́нную хи́трость романи́стов: на́чал по́весть эффе́ктными сце́нами, вы́рванными из среди́ны и́ли конца́ её́, прикры́л их тума́ном.
      Ja upotrebíl obyknovénnuju xítrostʹ romanístov: náčal póvestʹ efféktnymi scénami, výrvannymi iz sredíny íli koncá jejó, prikrýl ix tumánom.
      I have used the ordinary shrewdness of novelists: I began my story with effective scenes, clipt out from the middle or the end of it; I covered them with a fog.

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