-ый
Russian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɨj]
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic -ыи (-yi), displaced expected -ой (-oj) in unstressed positions, from Proto-Slavic *-ъ + *jь,[1] doublet of -о́й (-ój).
Alternative forms
- -о́й (-ój)
Suffix
-ый • (-yj) m
- masculine nominative singular adjective ending
- masculine inanimate accusative singular adjective ending
Declension
Declension of -ый (unknown short forms)
Etymology 2
The same as Etymology 1.
Alternative forms
- -ий (-ij)
Suffix
-ый • (-yj)
- -ed
- одно- (odno-, “one”) + глаз (glaz, “eye”) + -ый (-yj) → одногла́зый (odnoglázyj, “one-eyed”)
- све́тлый (svétlyj, “light”) + во́лос (vólos, “hair”) + -ый (-yj) → светловоло́сый (svetlovolósyj, “light-haired”)
- без- (bez-, “without”) + зуб (zub, “tooth”) + -ый (-yj) → беззу́бый (bezzúbyj, “toothless”, literally “no-toothed”)
Usage notes
- This suffix is used particularly with two-part compounds, where the second part normally refers to a body part.
- The stress is drawn onto the preceding syllable.
- These adjectives consistently have short forms of accent pattern a.
- The suffix has the variant -ий (-ij) used particularly after velars (к г х) due to Russian spelling rules.
Declension
Declension of -ый (short class a)
| masculine | neuter | feminine | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | -ый -yj |
-ое -oje |
-ая -aja |
-ые -yje | |
| genitive | -ого -ovo |
-ой -oj |
-ых -yx | ||
| dative | -ому -omu |
-ой -oj |
-ым -ym | ||
| accusative | animate | -ого -ovo |
-ое -oje |
-ую -uju |
-ых -yx |
| inanimate | -ый -yj |
-ые -yje | |||
| instrumental | -ым -ym |
-ой, -ою -oj, -oju |
-ыми -ymi | ||
| prepositional | -ом -om |
-ой -oj |
-ых -yx | ||
| short form | - | -о -o |
-а -a |
-ы -y | |
Derived terms
Russian terms suffixed with -ый
влаголюбивый
чешуекрылый
References
- ^ Wandl, Florian (November 2022) “Trapped morphology and the rise of the Slavic definite adjective inflection: a reexamination”, in Folia Linguistica, volume 56, number s43-s1, pages 1-2, 15: “[…] the definite adjective inflection of Slavic. This type of inflection arose when a pronoun with the stem *j- attached at the right edge of an adjective. […] cf. nom.sg.m *-ъ-jь/*-ь-jь → *-ъjь/*-ьjь […]”