холст

Russian

Etymology

Multiple proposals exist. It could be onomatopoeic equivalent to Polish chełst, chełstać, it could be borrowed from Middle High German hulst f (“covering, sheath”), another derivation from Proto-Germanic *huljaną (“to cover”) as *hulistrą, or secondarily related to that if hulft, hulfter, from which modern German Halfter, is the original. The Finnish fabric name hursti may be borrowed from Russian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xoɫst]

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Noun

холст • (xolst) m inan (genitive холста́, nominative plural холсты́, genitive plural холсто́в, relational adjective холщо́вый)

1. canvas
2. sackcloth, burlap

Declension

Declension of холст (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-b) 

	singular	plural
nominative	хо́лст xólst	холсты́ xolstý
genitive	холста́ xolstá	холсто́в xolstóv
dative	холсту́ xolstú	холста́м xolstám
accusative	хо́лст xólst	холсты́ xolstý
instrumental	холсто́м xolstóm	холста́ми xolstámi
prepositional	холсте́ xolsté	холста́х xolstáx

Further reading

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