погост

• пого́стъ (pogóst) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Inherited from Old East Slavic погостъ (pogostŭ). From Russian гость (gostʹ, “guest, visitor”), Russian погости́ть (pogostítʹ, “to stay for a while (at someone's house)”).

• IPA^(key): [pɐˈɡost]

пого́ст • (pogóst) m inan (genitive пого́ста, nominative plural пого́сты, genitive plural пого́стов, relational adjective пого́стный)

1. rural cemetery
2. (dated) village church located away from the settlement, with a graveyard, its own land and a house for the clergy
3. (historical, 10th century AD) coaching inn for princes and important church officials
4. (historical) pogost, former administrative-territorial unit in Russia, up through the 18th century, consisting of several villages
5. (historical) pogost, a large village in the center of such an administrative-territorial unit

• → Finnish: pokosta (dialectal)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “погост”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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