путь

From Proto-Slavic *pǫ̃tь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pántis, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s.

путь (putĭ) m

1. way, path

• Belarusian: пуць (pucʹ)
• Russian: путь (putʹ)
• Rusyn: путь (putʹ)
• Ukrainian: путь (putʹ)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902), “путь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1735

From Old East Slavic путь (putĭ), from Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pántis, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s.

• IPA^(key): [putʲ]

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• Rhymes: -utʲ

путь • (putʹ) m inan (genitive пути́, nominative plural пути́, genitive plural путе́й, related adjective путево́й)

1. way, path, road

   Он по пути́ в Петербу́рг. ― On po putí v Peterbúrg. ― He’s on his way to St. Petersburg.

   кружно́й путь ― kružnój putʹ ― roundabout way

   прокла́дывать/проложи́ть путь ― prokládyvatʹ/proložítʹ putʹ ― to make a path/road; break a trail

2. track, line
3. means
4. trip, journey
5. route

• доро́га (doróga)
• стезя́ (stezjá)

• путеводи́тель m (putevodítelʹ), путеше́ствие n (putešéstvije), пу́тник m (pútnik), спу́тник m (spútnik), путёвка f (putjóvka), путе́ец m (putéjec)
• путево́дный (putevódnyj), пу́тный (pútnyj), путёвый (putjóvyj)
• распу́тье n (raspútʹje)

From Old Ukrainian путь (putʹ), from Old East Slavic путь (putĭ), from Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pántis, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s.

• IPA^(key): [putʲ]

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путь • (putʹ) f inan (genitive путі́, nominative plural путі́, genitive plural путе́й)

1. way, road
2. path (of movement)
3. (usually in the plural, railroad) rail, track
4. (figurative) access, means
5. way, direction
6. travel
7. (archaic) favorable circumstances

   Synonym: пуття́ (puttjá)