келья
Russian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old East Slavic келиꙗ (kelija), from Byzantine Greek κελλία (kellía), plural of κελλίον (kellíon, “garret”), diminutive of κέλλα (kélla), from Latin cella.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ке́лья • (kélʹja) f inan (genitive ке́льи, nominative plural ке́льи, genitive plural ке́лий)
- (Christianity) cell (room in a monastery for sleeping one person)
Declension edit
Declension of ке́лья (inan fem-form vowel-stem accent-a)
Derived terms edit
- келе́йник (keléjnik)
- келе́йница (keléjnica)