городъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gordъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔrɔdʊ/→/ˈɡɔrɔdʊ/→/ˈɡɔrɔːd/

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔrɔdʊ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔrɔdʊ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔrɔːd/

Noun

городъ (gorodŭ) m

1. fortification, castle
2. town, city
   • 1352, Novgorod First Chronicle:

     Въ лѣ(т̑) · ҂ꙅ҃ · ф҃ · м҃е · заложи ꙗрославъ горо(д̑) · кꙑевъ · и цр҃квь · ст҃ꙑѧ · софиꙗ

     In year 6545 Yaroslav laid town Kiev and Church of Holy Sofia.

Descendants

• Belarusian: го́рад (hórad)
• Russian: го́род (górod)
• Carpathian Rusyn: город (horod)
• Ukrainian: го́род (hórod) (rare, walled town, city, citadel)

References

• Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2019), “Drevnerusskoje udarenije: Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ.”, in Languages of Slavic Culture‎ (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 542: “го́родъ ― górod”

Russian

Noun

го́родъ • (górod) m inan (genitive го́рода, nominative plural города́, genitive plural городо́въ)

1. Pre-1918 spelling of го́род (górod).

Declension

Pre-reform declension of го́родъ (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-c irreg) 

	singular	plural
nominative	го́родъ górod	города́△ gorodá△
genitive	го́рода góroda	городо́въ gorodóv
dative	го́роду górodu	города́мъ gorodám
accusative	го́родъ górod	города́△ gorodá△
instrumental	го́родомъ górodom	города́ми gorodámi
prepositional	го́родѣ górodě	города́хъ gorodáx

^△ Irregular.

Descendants

• → Southern Yukaghir: гоорот (gōrot)
• → Yakut: куорат (kuorat)