калитка

Per Vasmer, most likely from *колита (*kolita, “door”) +‎ -ка (-ka) with akanye, where *колита (*kolita) comes from кол (kol, “stake, peg”) and its original meaning was "equipped with pegs".

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈlʲitkə]

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кали́тка • (kalítka) f inan (genitive кали́тки, nominative plural кали́тки, genitive plural кали́ток)

1. small door in a fence; wicket gate

   садо́вая кали́тка ― sadóvaja kalítka ― garden gate

   • 1905, Фёдор Сологуб [Fyodor Sologub], chapter IV, in Мелкий бес; English translation from John Cournos and Richard Aldington, transl., The Little Demon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916:

     Передо́нов стоя́л у са́мой кали́тки и смотре́л в щель меж кали́ткою и приворо́тным столбо́м.

     Peredónov stojál u sámoj kalítki i smotrél v ščelʹ mež kalítkoju i privorótnym stolbóm.

     Peredonov stood at the gate and looked through the chink between the gate and the gate-post.

2. (regional) a small pie
3. (anime slang) Steins;Gate

For quotations using this term, see Citations:калитка.

• → Ingrian: kalitka

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “калитка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Vasmer, Max (1942) “Etymologisches [щеко́лда + кали́тка]”, in Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie‎^[1] (in German), volume 18, page 60

From a Turkic language; compare to Kazakh қалта (qalta, “pouch, pocket”).

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈɫɪtkɐ]

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кали́тка • (kalýtka) f inan (genitive кали́тки, nominative plural кали́тки, genitive plural кали́ток)

1. purse
2. (tobacco) pouch
3. (anatomy) scrotum

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “калитка”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka