колея

• колѣя́ (kolějá) — pre-1918 spelling

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kolěja. Related to *kolo. Cognate with Bulgarian коловоз (kolovoz), Czech kolej, Polish koleina, Serbo-Croatian колотраг.

Compare typologically Galician rodeira, rodal, rodada, rilleira, Spanish rodera (<… Latin rota).

• IPA^(key): [kəlʲɪˈja]

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колея́ • (kolejá) f inan (genitive колеи́, nominative plural колеи́, genitive plural коле́й, relational adjective коле́йный)

1. (automotive) rut (mark of wheels on the ground)
2. (rail transport) gauge (the distance between the rails of a line of railway track)

• узкоколе́йка f (uzkokoléjka)
• Suffixed with -колея́ (kolejá) + -ный (-nyj):
  • Counted

    • двухколе́йный (dvuxkoléjnyj)
    • многоколе́йный (mnogokoléjnyj)
    • одноколе́йный (odnokoléjnyj)
  • узкоколе́йный (uzkokoléjnyj)
  • ширококоле́йный (širokokoléjnyj)

Compounds:

• своя́ колея́ f (svojá kolejá)
• From коле́йный (koléjnyj):
  • коле́йный мост m (koléjnyj most)

• колесо́ n (kolesó)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “колея”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999), “колея”, 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 412

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “колея”, 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.
  • See: Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “колесо”, 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.