фужер
Russian edit
Etymology edit
Late 19th century after French verre de fougère, a certain quality grade of wine glasses, made from fougère (“fern”) ash, manufactured particularly in the town Fougères having its name from abundance in fern and later a glassware industry by reason of this fern presence.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
фуже́р • (fužér) m inan (genitive фуже́ра, nominative plural фуже́ры, genitive plural фуже́ров)
- tall wine glass
Declension edit
Declension of фуже́р (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a)
References edit
- Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “фужер”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa