иногда
Old East Slavic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьnogъda.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjinɔɡdɑ/→/ˈjinɔɡda/→/ˈjinɔɡda/
Adverb
иногда (inogda)
- once, formerly
- c. 1200, Kievan Chronicle:
- или како сѧ єси не домыслилъ. побѣдити ихъ иногда побѣжаꙗ полкы поганыхъ. болъгаръ
- ili kako sę jesi ne domyslilŭ. poběditi ixŭ inogda poběžaja polky poganyxŭ. bolŭgarŭ
- or how didst not thou figure out to overcome them, who once defeated armies of foul Bolgars
Descendants
- Old Ruthenian: иногды (inohdy), иногда (inohda)
- Russian: иногда́ (inogdá), и́ногды́ (ínogdý), инолды́ (inoldý)
References
- Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2019), “Drevnerusskoje udarenije: Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ.”, in Languages of Slavic Culture[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 172: “и́ногда ― ínogda”
Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic иногда (inogda), from Proto-Slavic *jьnogъda. By surface analysis, ино́й (inój) + -о- (-o-) + -гда (-gda); see когда́ (kogdá) for the origin of the last element.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɪnɐɡˈda]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -a
Adverb
иногда́ • (inogdá)
- sometimes, at times
- 1913, Максим Горький [Maxim Gorky], “VIII”, in Детство; English translation from Ronald Wilks, transl., My Childhood, 1966:
- Иногда́ он, сто́я в окне́, как в ра́ме, спря́тав ру́ки за́ спину, смотре́л пря́мо на кры́шу, но меня́ как бу́дто не ви́дел, и э́то о́чень обижа́ло.
- Inogdá on, stója v okné, kak v ráme, sprjátav rúki zá spinu, smotrél prjámo na krýšu, no menjá kak búdto ne vídel, i éto óčenʹ obižálo.
- Sometimes, standing there framed by the window, he looked straight at the roof, with his hands clasped behind him, but he didn’t seem to see me, and this I found very annoying.
- now and then
Synonyms
- времена́ми (vremenámi)