vorvaň
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Coined by Jan Svatopluk Presl based on Russian во́рвань (vórvanʹ, “whale fat”),[1][2] from Middle Russian ворвонь (vorvonʹ, “fats, hids or skins of marine mammals”),[3] from Old East Slavic вървонъ (vŭrvonŭ, “huntable marine mammal”), which is conventionally believed to derive from Old East Norse narhval.[4]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vorvaň m anim
Declension edit
References edit
- ^ Machek, Václav (1968) “vorvaň”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia, page 697
- ^ "vorvaň" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
- ^ Anikin, A. E. (2009) “ворвань”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 3 (бе – болдыхать), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 231
- ^ http://gramoty.ru/thumbs/bibliography_document_vja-2020.pdf