скаредный

Russian

Etymology

From ска́ред (skáred) +‎ -ный (-nyj), from Proto-Slavic *skarędъ. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic скарѧдь (skarędĭ), Czech škaredý and Polish szkaradny.

Vasmer also suspects relation with Sanskrit अवस्कर (avaskara, “trash, ordure”), Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”), and Proto-Germanic *skarną (“filth, dung”) (whence English skarn and sharn), which would make it derive from Proto-Indo-European *sóḱr̥ (“excrement, dung”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈskarʲɪdnɨj]

Adjective

ска́редный • (skárednyj)

  1. stingy, niggardly
  2. mean

Declension

References

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