черенки

Russian edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɪrʲɪnˈkʲi]
Audio (file)

Noun edit

черенки́ • (čerenkí) m inan pl or m anim pl

inflection of черено́к (čerenók):
1. nominative plural
2. inanimate accusative plural

Ukrainian edit

Etymology edit

Plural of Ukrainian черенка (čerenka, “one type symbol; knife handle”), from черен (čeren, “handle, stem”) +‎ -ка (-ka), from Old East Slavic черенъ (čerenŭ), from Proto-Slavic *černъ. Cognate with Ukrainian корінь (korinʹ).

The semantic development of черенка^[1] into "a single font glyph" is not fully clear. Possibly as follows: "handle; stem" → "[metal] knife handle" → "long metal handle, stem" → "metal stem that holds a typographic symbol". The very first printing presses used a set of metal glyphs that looked like long thin stems with a convex symbols on the tips.

Noun edit

черенки́ • (čerenký) f inan pl (genitive [please provide], plural only)

(typography, archaic) font, type
Synonym: шрифт (šryft)

References edit

^ "черенки" translated into German as Typen in Zhelekhivskyi, E. I., Nedilskyi, S., editors (1886), “черенка”, in Малоруско-нїмецкий словар [Ukrainian-German Dictionary]‎^[1] (in German), volumes 2: П – Я, Lviv: Shevchenko Society, page 1067

Further reading edit

“черенки”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
“черенки”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)
Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1924), “чере́нка”, in Словарь української мови [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language]‎^[2] (in Russian), volumes 2: О – Я, Berlin: Ukrainske Slowo, page 966
Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1924), “черенки́”, in Словарь української мови [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language]‎^[3] (in Russian), volumes 2: О – Я, Berlin: Ukrainske Slowo, page 966

[1] "черенки" translated into German as Typen in Zhelekhivskyi, E. I., Nedilskyi, S., editors (1886), “черенка”, in Малоруско-нїмецкий словар [Ukrainian-German Dictionary]‎^[1] (in German), volumes 2: П – Я, Lviv: Shevchenko Society, page 1067

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