Macedonian

Noun

жила • ‎(žila) f

1. blood vessel, vein
2. sinew, tendon

Inflection

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *žila, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷhīslo-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeiH- ‎(“sinew”). Cognates include Old Armenian ջիլ ‎(ǰil), Latin filum ‎(“thread”), Lithuanian gýsla.

Noun

жила • ‎(žila) f

1. vein
2. tendon

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *žila.

Noun

жила ‎(žila) f

1. vein
2. tendon

Descendants

• Belarusian: жы́ла ‎(žýla)
• Russian: жи́ла ‎(žíla)
• Ukrainian: жи́ла ‎(žýla)

References

• Sreznevskij, I. I. (1893), “жила”, in Materialy dlja slovarja drevne-russkago jazyka po pisʹmennym pamjatnikam [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language According to Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 873

Russian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *žila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʐɨlə]

Noun

жи́ла • ‎(žíla) f inan ‎(genitive жи́лы, nominative plural жи́лы, genitive plural жил)

1. (anatomy) sinew, tendon
2. (anatomy) vein
3. (geology) vein
4. strand

Declension

Noun

жи́ла • ‎(žíla) m anim, f anim ‎(genitive жи́лы, nominative plural жи́лы, genitive plural жил)

1. (pejorative) miser, niggard, skinflint

Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʐɨˈla]

Verb

жила́ • ‎(žilá)

1. feminine singular past indicative imperfective of жить ‎(žitʹ)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *žila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒîla/
• Hyphenation: жи‧ла

Noun

жи̏ла f ‎(Latin spelling žȉla)

1. vein
2. tendon

Declension