гнѣздо

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Old Church Slavonic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *gnězdo.

Noun[edit]

гнѣздо (gnězdon

  1. nest

Declension[edit]

Russian[edit]

Noun[edit]

гнѣздо́ (gnězdón inan (genitive гнѣзда́, nominative plural гнѣ̈зда, genitive plural гнѣ̈здъ, diminutive гнѣ̈здышко)

  1. Pre-1918 spelling of гнездо́ (gnezdó).

Usage notes[edit]

  • гнѣздо́ (gnězdó) is one of the few Russian terms in pre-1918 orthography in which a stressed ѣ () is pronounced like the letter ё (jo). It is therefore written with a diaeresis in a similar fashion: ѣ̈ (). Note that this only occurs in certain inflections.

Declension[edit]