способ
Russian edit
Alternative forms edit
- спо́собъ (spósob) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology edit
Possibly borrowed from Old Czech zpósob (whence Czech způsob), from Proto-Slavic *sъposobъ (itself from Proto-Slavic *sъ + Proto-Slavic *posobiti.) Cognate with Ukrainian спо́сіб (spósib), Belarusian спо́саб (spósab), Slovak spôsob, Polish sposób, Bulgarian спо́соб (spósob).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
спо́соб • (spósob) m inan (genitive спо́соба, nominative plural спо́собы, genitive plural спо́собов)
Declension edit
Declension of спо́соб (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a)
Derived terms edit
- спосо́бный (sposóbnyj)
- спосо́бность (sposóbnostʹ)
Related terms edit
- посо́бие (posóbije)
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “способ”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress