юла
Russian edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. Theories include:
- Simplified from *вьюла́ (*vʹjulá) from вить (vitʹ)
- Related to юр (jur, “a spot stirred up by currents or bypassers etc.”), ю́ркий (júrkij, “agile, brisk”), Proto-Slavic *juriti (“to stir up”), Serbo-Croatian júriti (“to chivvy”), Polish jurzyć (“to stir up”), of Turkic origin represented by yürümek (“to march forward”)
- Related to Proto-Slavic *juditi, Polish judzić (“to instigate”)
- Borrowed from a descendant of Old Norse hjól (“wheel”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
юла́ • (julá) f inan or f anim (genitive юлы́, nominative plural юлы́, genitive plural юл)
- spinning top (toy)
- woodlark
Declension edit
Pre-reform declension of юла́ (bian fem-form hard-stem accent-b)
Synonyms edit
- волчо́к (volčók)
- лесно́й жа́воронок (lesnój žávoronok)
Related terms edit
- юли́ть impf (julítʹ)
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “юла”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress