восток
See also: Восток
Russian edit
Alternative forms edit
- восто́къ (vostók) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic въстокъ (vŭstokŭ, “rising, east”), displacing the native East Slavic form всток (vstok) (preserved in some dialects); the Old Church Slavonic term is a calque of Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “rising, east”). Related to встать (vstatʹ).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
восто́к • (vostók) m inan (genitive восто́ка, uncountable)
Declension edit
Declension of восто́к (inan sg-only masc-form velar-stem accent-a)
Coordinate terms edit
- (compass points)
се́веро-за́пад (sévero-západ) норд-ве́ст (nord-vést) |
се́вер (séver) норд (nord) |
се́веро-восто́к (sévero-vostók) норд-о́ст (nord-óst) |
за́пад (západ) вест (vest) |
восто́к (vostók) ост (ost) | |
ю́го-за́пад (júgo-západ) зюйд-ве́ст (zjujd-vést) |
юг (jug) зюйд (zjujd) |
ю́го-восто́к (júgo-vostók) зюйд-о́ст (zjujd-óst) |
Derived terms edit
- Восто́к (Vostók, “the East, the Orient”)
- восто́чный (vostóčnyj)
References edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “восток”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress