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ящик
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See also: ашик
Khakas
Etymology
Noun
ящик • (yaşçik)
Russian
Alternative forms
- я́щикъ (jáščik) — pre-reform orthography (1918)
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
Noun
я́щик • (jáščik) m inan (genitive я́щика, nominative plural я́щики, genitive plural я́щиков, relational adjective я́щичный, diminutive я́щичек)
- box, case, chest
- drawer (in a piece of furniture)
- (colloquial, derogatory) idiot box, boob tube (TV set)
- (colloquial, dated) secret facility, military facility
- Synonyms: абоне́нтский я́щик (abonéntskij jáščik), почто́вый я́щик (počtóvyj jáščik), режи́мное предприя́тие (režímnoje predprijátije)
- (computing, colloquial) ellipsis of электро́нный почто́вый я́щик (elektrónnyj počtóvyj jáščik); (email) inbox
Declension
Derived terms
Compounds:
- абоне́нтский я́щик m (abonéntskij jáščik)
- почто́вый я́щик m (počtóvyj jáščik)
- чёрный я́щик m (čórnyj jáščik)
- я́щик Пандо́ры m (jáščik Pandóry)
- я́щик Ски́ннера m (jáščik Skínnera)
- Phrases
- откла́дывать в до́лгий я́щик impf (otkládyvatʹ v dólgij jáščik)
- сыгра́ть в я́щик pf (sygrátʹ v jáščik)
Related terms
- Native
- я́сень m (jásenʹ)
Descendants
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
Further reading
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “ящик”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
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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)
Declension
Synonyms
References
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “ящик”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- “ящик”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
- “ящик”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)
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