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дно

дно

Macedonian

Noun

дно (dno) n

  1. bottom

Inflection


Russian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic дъно (dŭno), from Proto-Slavic *dъno (bottom), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dubno, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰubno-, from *dʰewb- (deep).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dno]

Noun

дно (dno) n inan (genitive дна, nominative plural до́нья, genitive plural до́ньев)

  1. floor, bed (hard surface at the bottom of a body of water)
  2. bottom surface of a container
    Пей до дна! — Drink up!
  3. (figuratively) bottom of society
    • 1976, Юрий Трифонов (Yury Trifonov), Дом на набережной (The House on the Embankment):
      Что-то когда́-то слышал о том, что Шулепа пропал, докатился до дна, но что́бы уж до сюда? До мебельного?
      Što-to kogdá-to slyšal o tom, što Šulepa propal, dokatilsja do dna, no štóby už do sjuda? Do mebelʹnovo?
      Somehow sometime, I heard about how Shulepa disappeared—fell to the bottom—but to here? To furniture sales?

Declension

Related terms

References

  • Fasmer, Maks (1964–1973), дно”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačev O. N., Moscow: Progress
  • Černyx, P. Ja. (1999), дно”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 257

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dъno.

Noun

дно̏ n (Latin spelling dnȍ)

  1. bottom

Declension