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Belarusian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *xvostъ. Cognate with Russian хвост (xvost).
Pronunciation
Noun
хвост • (xvost) m inan (genitive хваста́, nominative plural хвасты́, genitive plural хвасто́ў)
- tail
Inflection
Declension of хвост (inan hard masc-form accent-b)
1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.
References
- “хвост” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xvostъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
хвост • (xvost) m inan (genitive хвоста́, nominative plural хвосты́, genitive plural хвосто́в, relational adjective хвостово́й, diminutive хво́стик)
- tail
1862, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 16”, in Отцы и дети; English translation from Richard Hare, transl., Fathers and Sons, 1947:Борза́я соба́ка, и́мя кото́рой бы́ло Фифи, подошла́, маха́я хвосто́м, поочерёдно к обо́им гостя́м и ткну́ла ка́ждого из них свои́м холо́дным но́сом в ру́ку.- Borzája sobáka, ímja kotóroj býlo Fifi, podošlá, maxája xvostóm, poočerjódno k obóim gostjám i tknúla káždovo iz nix svoím xolódnym nósom v rúku.
- The wolfhound, whose name was Fifi, went up to both visitors in turn, wagging its tail and thrusting its cold nose into their hands.
- queue
- (university slang) academic arrears, backlog
- Synonym: академи́ческая задо́лженность (akademíčeskaja zadólžennostʹ)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “хвост”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хвост”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “хвост”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 336
- Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “хвост”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa