бельё

• бѣльё (bělʹjó) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

From бе́лый (bélyj) +‎ -ьё (-ʹjó). Compare Polish bielizna. Also compare Hungarian fehérnemű, German Weißwaren, and English tighty whities or whites.

• IPA^(key): [bʲɪˈlʲjɵ]

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бельё • (belʹjó) n inan (genitive белья́, uncountable, relational adjective бельево́й, pejorative бельи́шко)

1. underwear, skivvies, underclothes, undergarment, undies
2. bedclothes, linen
3. washing (textiles that have been or are to be washed)

• бельево́й (belʹjevój)
  • бельева́я f (belʹjevája)

Compounds:

• гря́зное бельё n (grjáznoje belʹjó)

• бе́лый (bélyj)

• → Bulgarian: бельо́ (beljó)

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “бельё”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 84
• Shansky, N. M. (1965) “бельё”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, number 2 (Б), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 89
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “бельё”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “бельё”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 29
  • See: Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “белый”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 29
• Anikin, A. E. (2009) “бельё”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 3 (бе – болдыхать), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 87

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “белый”, 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.