материк

• According to Erich Berneker and Max Vasmer, from ма́терь (máterʹ) +‎ -и́к (-ík).
• Accentologically, according to Andrey Zaliznyak, from матеро́й (materój) +‎ -и́к (-ík) with a right-stressed substitutive subjective suffix. As well as временно́й (vremennój) → временни́к (vremenník), мелочно́й (meločnój) → мелочни́к (meločník), but варёный (varjónyj) → варе́ник (varénik), ры́жий (rýžij) → ры́жик (rýžik).

• IPA^(key): [mətʲɪˈrʲik]

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матери́к • (materík) m inan (genitive материка́, nominative plural материки́, genitive plural материко́в, relational adjective материко́вый)

1. continent
2. mainland
3. native soil
4. subsoil
5. (geology) matrix, gangue
6. (biology) parent tissue

• контине́нт (kontinént)

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

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “материк”, 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), “матерый”, 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.

Cognate with Russian матери́к (materík).

• IPA^(key): [mɐteˈrɪk]

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матери́к • (materýk) m inan (genitive материка́, nominative plural материки́, genitive plural материкі́в)

1. (geography) continent

   Synonym: контине́нт m (kontynént)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “материк”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “материк”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horox – Slovozmina, Horokh – Inflection]‎^[1]
• “материк”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
• “материк”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua, Slovnyk.ua]‎^[2]