жуть

Backformation from жуткий (žutkij), from an earlier form *жудъкый, which, in its turn, is related to жуда́ (žudá, “need, want; ordeal, trouble; dread”). Further etymology unclear. Either of expressive origin or, if unlikely, a loan from Samogitian žiadùs (“harsh”) < žudyti (“to slay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“take, seize, grasp”), the only cognates in either case being Belarusian жуда́ (žudá, “dread”) and жу́дасны (žúdasny, “dreadful”) and, in the latter, also Old English ġietan, English get, Ancient Greek χᾰνδᾰ́νω (khăndắnō, “to hold, contain”), Latin hedera (“ivy”). It may also be akin to Serbo-Croatian žud (“desire”), žudjeti, stemming from Proto-Slavic *žьlděti. Similarity to Bulgarian жуда (žuda) incidental.

• IPA^(key): [ʐutʲ]

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• Rhymes: -utʲ

жуть • (žutʹ) f inan (genitive жу́ти, nominative plural жу́ти, genitive plural жу́тей)

1. dismay, dread, horror

• жу́ткий (žútkij)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “жу́ткий”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “жуда́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999), “жуткий”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 310
• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “жуда”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
• Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “жуда”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka
• Jasna Vlajić-Popović (2015), “Church Slavonic žlъděti ‘desiderare, cupere’ – Relict or Innovation”, in Ilona Janyšková, Helena Karlíková, editors, Etymological Research into Old Church Slavonic‎^[1], Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, pages 431–442