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предел (predelm

  1. region, area
  2. compartment

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прѣдѣлъ (prědělŭ). Doublet of переде́л (peredél), the inherited East Slavic form, Inherited from Proto-Slavic *perdělъ

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преде́л (predélm inan (genitive преде́ла, nominative plural преде́лы, genitive plural преде́лов, relational adjective преде́льный)

  1. limit, boundary, margin
    • 1964, Братья Стругацкие, “История первая. Суета вокруг дивана. Глава шестая”, in Понедельник начинается в субботу, Детская литература; English translation from Leonid Renen, transl., Monday Begins on Saturday, New York: DAW Books, 1977:
      Собирая постель и делая зарядку, я размышлял о том, что существует, вероятно, некоторый предел способности к удивлению.
      Sobiraja postelʹ i delaja zarjadku, ja razmyšljal o tom, što suščestvujet, verojatno, nekotoryj predel sposobnosti k udivleniju.
      Picking up the bedding and doing my exercises, I cogitated that there probably existed some limit to the capacity of being surprised.
  2. border
  3. (in the plural) precincts
  4. (mathematics) limit

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прѣдѣлъ (prědělŭ), Proto-Slavic *perdělъ

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  • IPA(key): /prěːdel/
  • Hyphenation: пре‧дел

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пре́дел m (Latin spelling prédel)

  1. (linguistics) district

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References

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “предел”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress