мамонт
Russian
Alternative forms
- ма́монтъ (mámont) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
- ма́мант (mámant) — archaic
- ма́мантъ (mámant) — Pre-reform orthography (1918), archaic
Etymology
Probably from a Uralic language, like Proto-Mansi *mē̮ŋ-ońt (“earth-horn”) (compare Northern Mansi ма̄ (mā, “earth”), а̄ньт (ānʹt, “horn”)) or Khanty. Compare Proto-Uralic *mëxe (“earth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmamənt]
Noun
ма́монт • (mámont) m anim (genitive ма́монта, nominative plural ма́монты, genitive plural ма́монтов, relational adjective ма́монтовый)
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Related terms
- мамонтёнок m (mamontjónok)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: mamont
- → Armenian: մամոնտ (mamont)
- → Belarusian: ма́мант (mámant)
- → Bulgarian: маму́т (mamút)
- → Dutch: mammoet
- → English: mammoth
- → French: mammouth, mammout
- → Georgian: მამონტი (mamonṭi)
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- → Macedonian: мамут (mamut)
- → Polish: mamut
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovene: mȃmut
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- → Turkmen: mamont
- → Uyghur: مامونت (mamont)
- → Uzbek: mamont
- → Yakut: мааман (maaman)
Further reading
- мамонт in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
Ukrainian
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Uralic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmamɔnt]
Audio (file)
Noun
ма́монт • (mámont) m animal (genitive ма́монта, nominative plural ма́монти, genitive plural ма́монтів, relational adjective ма́монтовий)
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
References
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “мамонт”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- “мамонт”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)