мыло
Nivkh
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian мыло (mylo).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɤlo/
Noun
мыло (məlo)
Derived terms
- мылосиф (məlosif, “soapdish”)
Russian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɨɫə]
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Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mydlo, from *myti (“to wash”). By surface analysis, мыть (mytʹ) + -ло (-lo).
For the term and помо́и (pomói) relation with мыть (mytʹ), compare typologically Ancient Greek ῥύμμα (rhúmma) < ῥύπτω (rhúptō, “to cleanse, to wash”). Also compare σμῆμα (smêma) < σμάω (smáō). Also compare English lye << Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃-.
Noun
мы́ло • (mýlo) n inan (genitive мы́ла, nominative plural мыла́, genitive plural мыл, relational adjective мы́льный, diminutive мы́льце)
- (usually uncountable) soap
- (usually uncountable) lather
- (slang) e-mail (by phono-semantic matching with English mail)
Declension
Derived terms
- в мы́ле (v mýle)
- взмы́ленный (vzmýlennyj)
- мы́лить impf (mýlitʹ)
- мы́лкий (mýlkij)
- мы́льница f (mýlʹnica)
- мы́льный (mýlʹnyj)
- мы́льня f (mýlʹnja)
- обмы́лок m (obmýlok)
Compound words:
- мылова́р m anim (mylovár)
- мылова́рня f (mylovárnja)
Compounds:
- меня́ть ши́ло на мы́ло impf (menjátʹ šílo na mýlo)
- ши́ло на мы́ло (šílo na mýlo)
- Phrases
- судью́ на мы́ло (sudʹjú na mýlo)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Ingrian: muila
- → Karelian: muila
- → Lithuanian: muilas
- → Nivkh: мыло (məlo)
- → Votic: muilõ, mõilõ
- → Yakut: мыыла (mııla)
Further reading
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “мыло”, 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.
- мыло in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
Etymology 2
Verb
мы́ло • (mýlo)
- neuter singular past indicative imperfective of мыть (mytʹ)