уезд
Russian
Alternative forms
- уѣ́здъ (ujě́zd) – Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic уѣздъ (uězdŭ), from *u- (compare Russian у- (u-)) + *jězdъ, deverbal of *ězditi (compare Russian е́здить (jézditʹ)). Compare Old Polish ujazd (“lawful circuit around one's land for the purposes of determining the borders”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ʊˈjest]
Noun
уе́зд • (ujézd) m inan (genitive уе́зда, nominative plural уе́зды, genitive plural уе́здов, related adjective уе́здный)
- (historical) uyezd; district (administrative unit in the Russian Empire before 1917)
- administrative region of various countries, including Estonia, Lithuania, People's Republic of China, North and South Korea (county) and Japan (district, 郡)
Declension
Declension of уе́зд (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | уе́зд ujézd | уе́зды ujézdy |
| genitive | уе́зда ujézda | уе́здов ujézdov |
| dative | уе́зду ujézdu | уе́здам ujézdam |
| accusative | уе́зд ujézd | уе́зды ujézdy |
| instrumental | уе́здом ujézdom | уе́здами ujézdami |
| prepositional | уе́зде ujézde | уе́здах ujézdax |
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: уезд (uezd)
- → Czech: ujezd
- → Dutch: oejezd
- → English: uyezd
- → Esperanto: ujezdo
- → Finnish: ujesti
- → French: ouïezd
- → German: Ujesd
- → Greek: ουγέστ (ougést)
- → Hungarian: ujezd
- → Czech: uezd
- → Japanese: ウエズド
- → Kazakh: үйез (üiez)
- → Polish: ujezd
- → Romanian: uezd
- → Tatar: өяз (öyaz)
- → Turkish: uyezd
- → Uzbek: uyezd
- → Spanish: uyezd
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “уезд”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress