уезд

Russian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic уѣздъ (uězdŭ), from *u- (compare Russian у- (u-)) + *jězdъ, deverbal of *ězditi (compare Russian е́здить (jézditʹ)). Compare Old Polish ujazd (“lawful circuit around one's land for the purposes of determining the borders”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ʊˈjest]

Noun

уе́зд • (ujézd) m inan (genitive уе́зда, nominative plural уе́зды, genitive plural уе́здов, relational adjective уе́здный)

  1. (historical) uyezd; district (administrative unit in the Russian Empire before 1917)
  2. administrative region of various countries, including Estonia, Lithuania, People's Republic of China, North and South Korea (county) and Japan (district, 郡)

Declension
Declension of уе́зд (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative уе́зд
ujézd		 уе́зды
ujézdy
genitive уе́зда
ujézda		 уе́здов
ujézdov
dative уе́зду
ujézdu		 уе́здам
ujézdam
accusative уе́зд
ujézd		 уе́зды
ujézdy
instrumental уе́здом
ujézdom		 уе́здами
ujézdami
prepositional уе́зде
ujézde		 уе́здах
ujézdax

Descendants
  • → Bulgarian: уезд (uezd)
  • → Czech: ujezd
  • → Dutch: oejezd
  • → English: uyezd
  • → Esperanto: ujezdo
  • → Finnish: ujesti
  • → French: ouïezd
  • → German: Ujesd
  • → Greek: ουγέστ (ougést)
  • → Hungarian: ujezd
  • → Czech: uezd
  • → Japanese: ウエズド
  • → Kazakh: үйез (üiez)
  • → Polish: ujezd
  • → Romanian: uezd
  • → Tatar: өяз (öyaz)
  • → Turkish: uyezd
  • → Uzbek: uyezd
  • → Spanish: uyezd

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