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ящик

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See also: ашик

Khakas

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian я́щик (jáščik).

Noun

ящик (yaşçik)

  1. box, chest

Russian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic аскъ (askŭ) or ꙗскъ (jaskŭ), from Old Norse askr (wooden vessel) or eski (ashen box). See *askaz for cognates.

In the sense of “secret facility”, from the Soviet Union-era rule of keeping the names of such facilities a secret by addressing mail to a post office box number without a name.

For the semantic shift from "tree" to "container" compare Latin buxus, buxis (whence English box, boxwood). Also compare German Truhe (akin to German Trog, further akin to Proto-Indo-European *dóru).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈjæɕːɪk]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

я́щик (jáščik) m inan (genitive я́щика, nominative plural я́щики, genitive plural я́щиков, relational adjective я́щичный, diminutive я́щичек)

  1. box, case, chest
  2. drawer (in a piece of furniture)
  3. (colloquial, derogatory) idiot box, boob tube (TV set)
  4. (colloquial, dated) secret facility, military facility
    Synonyms: абоне́нтский я́щик (abonéntskij jáščik), почто́вый я́щик (počtóvyj jáščik), режи́мное предприя́тие (režímnoje predprijátije)
  5. (computing, colloquial) ellipsis of электро́нный почто́вый я́щик (elektrónnyj počtóvyj jáščik); (email) inbox

Declension

Derived terms

Compounds:

Phrases
Native

Descendants

  • Armenian: յաշիկ (yašik)
  • Azerbaijani: yeşik
  • Bashkir: йәшник (yəşnik)
  • Chechen: яьшка (jäška)
  • Kazakh: жәшік (jäşık)
  • Svan: ჲაშიკ (yašiḳ), ჰაშიკ (hašiḳ)
  • Uzbek: yashik
  • >? Russenorsk: njasika, njasikka

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ящик”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999), “ящик”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 476

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Ukrainian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic аскъ (askŭ) or ꙗскъ (jaskŭ).

Pronunciation

Noun

я́щик (jáščyk) m inan (genitive я́щика, nominative plural ящики́, genitive plural ящикі́в, diminutive я́щичок)

  1. box, case, chest

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Synonyms

References

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