барсовый

Old Ruthenian

Etymology

First attested in 1555.[1] From барсъ (bars, snow leopard) + -овый (-ovyj).

Adjective

ба́рсовый (bársovyj)

  1. (relational) snow leopard (Panthera uncia)
  2. (relational) snow leopard skin

Descendants

  • Belarusian: ба́рсавы (bársavy)
  • Ukrainian: ба́рсовий (bársovyj)

References

  1. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), барс”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А –Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 146: “ст. барсовым (1555)”

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