зыбь
Russian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old East Slavic зꙑбь (zybĭ, “unsteady place, quagmire”), from Proto-Slavic *zybь. Derivable synchronically as зы́б(кий) (zýb(kij)) + -ь (-ʹ).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
зыбь • (zybʹ) f inan (genitive зы́би, nominative plural зы́би, genitive plural зыбе́й)
- ripple, swell (surface wave in the absence of wind)
- (poetic) wave (generally on the sea)
- unstable surface, quagmire