утёс
Russian
Alternative forms
- утёсъ (utjós) — pre-1918 spelling
Etymology
From утеса́ть (utesátʹ), теса́ть (tesátʹ, “to hew, to cleave”).
Compare typologically скала́ (skalá) (akin to щель (ščelʹ), расще́лина (rasščélina)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ʊˈtʲɵs]
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Noun
утёс • (utjós) m inan (genitive утёса, nominative plural утёсы, genitive plural утёсов)
Declension
Further reading
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “утесывать”, 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.