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Khakas
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian я́щик (jáščik).
Noun
ящик • (yaşçik)
- box, chest
Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic аскъ (askŭ) or ꙗскъ (jaskŭ), from Old Norse askr (“wooden vessel”) or eski (“ashen box”). See *askaz for cognates.
In the sense of “secret facility”, from the Soviet Union-era rule of keeping the names of such facilities a secret by addressing mail to a post office box number without a name.
For the semantic shift from "tree" to "container" compare Latin buxus, buxis (whence English box, boxwood).
Pronunciation
Noun
я́щик • (jáščik) m inan (genitive я́щика, nominative plural я́щики, genitive plural я́щиков, relational adjective я́щичный, diminutive я́щичек)
- box, case, chest
- drawer (in a piece of furniture)
- (colloquial, derogatory) idiot box, boob tube (TV set)
- (colloquial, dated) secret facility, military facility
- Synonyms: абоне́нтский я́щик (abonéntskij jáščik), почто́вый я́щик (počtóvyj jáščik), режи́мное предприя́тие (režímnoje predprijátije)
- (computing, colloquial) Short for электро́нный почто́вый я́щик (elektrónnyj počtóvyj jáščik); (email) inbox
Declension
Derived terms
- Native
Descendants
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ящик”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “ящик”, 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 476
Ukrainian
Etymology
From Old East Slavic аскъ (askŭ) or ꙗскъ (jaskŭ).
Pronunciation
Noun
я́щик • (jáščyk) m inan (genitive я́щика, nominative plural ящики́, genitive plural ящикі́в, diminutive я́щичок)
- box, case, chest
Declension
Declension of я́щик (inan velar masc-form accent-c)
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