почва

• по́чва: IPA^(key): [ˈpɔt͡ʃvɐ] (present indicative or aorist)
• почва́: IPA^(key): [pot͡ʃˈva] (aorist only)

по́чва • (póčva)

1. third-person singular present indicative of по́чвам (póčvam)

по́чва or почва́ • (póčva or počvá)

1. second-person singular aorist indicative of по́чвам (póčvam)
2. third-person singular aorist indicative of по́чвам (póčvam)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔt͡ʃva]

почва • (počva) f (relational adjective почвен)

1. soil, ground

Inherited from Old East Slavic подъшьва (podŭšĭva, “sole (bottom); foundation”), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *šiti (“to sew”). Doublet of подо́шва (podóšva, “sole, (mountain) foot”).

Compare typologically Latin solum (see also English soil) related to solea (whence English sole).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpot͡ɕvə]

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по́чва • (póčva) f inan (genitive по́чвы, nominative plural по́чвы, genitive plural почв, relational adjective по́чвенный)

1. earth, soil, ground (mixture of sand and organic material)
2. basis, base, ground

• земля́ (zemljá), грунт (grunt)
• фунда́мент (fundáment), основа́ние (osnovánije)

• почвенник (počvennik)
• почвеннический (počvenničeskij), почвоведение (počvovedenije), почвовед (počvoved)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “почва”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “почва”, 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 62
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “подъшьва”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 302