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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic селезень (selezenĭ), cognate to Ukrainian се́лезень (sélezenʹ) and dialectal Serbo-Croatian slezen, slezenjak, slezenka, slezinka, slezenjača, sljez, šjez (“drake”). The earlier history is uncertain.
Pronunciation
Noun
се́лезень • (sélezenʹ) m anim (genitive се́лезня, nominative plural се́лезни, genitive plural се́лезней)
- drake, male duck
Declension
Further reading
- Антропов, Николай Павлович (2023) “К этимологии русск. селезень”, in Этимология как образ жизни. Коллективная монография к 70-летию академика А.Е. Аникина (in Russian), Saint-Petersburg: Алетейя, →ISBN, pages 136–147
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “селезень”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress