soviet
English
/ˈsəʊ.vi.ət/, /ˈsoʊ.vi.ət/
noun
Definitions
- (historical) A workers' council, an institution first formed during the and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian сове́т (council, board, soviet, a council, Soviet, advice) derived from Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian съвѣтъ (advice) derived from Proto-Slavic *větъ (council, talk).
Origin
Proto-Slavic
*větъ
Gloss
council, talk
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Soviet English
- antisoviet English
- nonsoviet English
- soviet French
- сове́т Russian
- советник Russian
- советский Russian
- советчик Russian
- sovjet Norwegian Bokmål
- sovjet Swedish
- ソビエト Japanese
- ソヴェト Japanese
- Sowiet Polish
- przywitać Polish
- witać Polish
- sovjet Norwegian Nynorsk
- *vitati Proto-Slavic
- *větъ Proto-Slavic
- سوفياتي Arabic
- سوفيتي Arabic
- Sovétríkin Icelandic
- सोवियत Hindi
- โซเวียต Thai
- ဆိုဗီယက် Burmese
- 蘇維埃 Chinese
- សូវៀត Central Khmer
- вѣтъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- съвѣтъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- съвѣтъ Old East Slavic
- совет Bashkir
- sovet Uzbek
- совет Dungan