ратуша

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Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic ратуша (ratuša), from Polish ratusz, from Middle High German rāthūs (whence also German Rathaus); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rēdaz + Proto-Germanic *hūsą. Polish /ʃ/ replaced Middle High German s because at the time, this letter was pronounced as apicoalveolar /s̺/ (with a weak hushing sound, similar to Castilian Spanish) and was distinct from the letter written z, pronounced as laminoalveolar /s/ (with a strong hissing sound, similar to English).

Compare parallel Russian Дом Сове́тов (Dom Sovétov, “House of Soviets”) (Дом Советов), дом сове́та (dom sovéta) from дом (dom) + сове́т (sovét).

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Noun

ра́туша • (rátuša) f inan (genitive ра́туши, nominative plural ра́туши, genitive plural ра́туш, relational adjective ра́тушный)

  1. (historical) administrative body of a city or township
  2. town hall

Declension

Declension of ра́туша (inan fem-form sibilant-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative ра́туша
rátuša 		ра́туши
rátuši
genitive ра́туши
rátuši 		ра́туш
rátuš
dative ра́туше
rátuše 		ра́тушам
rátušam
accusative ра́тушу
rátušu 		ра́туши
rátuši
instrumental ра́тушей, ра́тушею
rátušej, rátušeju 		ра́тушами
rátušami
prepositional ра́туше
rátuše 		ра́тушах
rátušax
Proto-Germanic *rēdaz related

Borrowed

Native

Proto-Germanic *hūsą related

Borrowed

Borrowed into Proto-Slavic

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ратуша”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “ратуша”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
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