гай
Belarusian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *gajь.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
гай • (haj) m inan (genitive га́ю, nominative plural гаі́, genitive plural гаёў)
- grove (a medium sized collection of trees)
Declension edit
Declension of гай (inan soft masc-form accent-c)
References edit
- “гай” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
Russian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gajь. Cognate with Ukrainian гай (haj), Serbo-Croatian гај/gaj, Slovene gaj, Slovak háj.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
гай • (gaj) m inan (genitive га́я, nominative plural гаи́, genitive plural гаёв)
- (dialectal, Ukraine, Southern Russia) small grove
- Synonym: ро́ща (róšča)
Declension edit
Ukrainian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Slavic *gajь. Cognate with Russian гай (gaj), Slovene gaj, Serbo-Croatian гај/gaj, Slovak háj.
Noun edit
гай • (haj) m inan (genitive га́ю, nominative plural гаї́, genitive plural гаї́в)
- grove (a medium sized collection of trees)
Declension edit
Declension of гай (inan j-stem masc-form accent-c)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
гай • (haj)
- second-person singular imperative of га́яти impf (hájaty)
References edit
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “гай”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “гай”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 3 (відстава́ння – ґура́льня), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
- “гай”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)