городъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gordъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɔrɔdʊ/→/ˈɡɔrɔdʊ/→/ˈɡɔrɔːd/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔrɔdʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔrɔdʊ/
  • (ca. 13th 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[1] (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)
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