след

• сьлед (sʹljed) — Taraškievica orthography
• śled — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Inherited from Old Ruthenian слѣдъ (slěd),^[1] from Old East Slavic слѣдъ (slědŭ), from Proto-Slavic *slědъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sláidus, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ-. Compare Polish ślad, Russian след (sled) and Ukrainian слід (slid).

• IPA^(key): [sʲlʲet]

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след • (sljed) m inan (genitive сле́ду, nominative plural сляды́, genitive plural слядо́ў)

1. track, trail, footprint (a mark left by something that has passed along)
   • 1934 [1895], Rudyard Kipling, “Каралеўскі анк”, in Janka Maŭr, transl., Маўглі, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of The King's Ankus, page 192:

     — Раз, два, тры, чатыры сляды! — казаў Маўглі, схіліўшыся над попелам. — Чатыры сляды людзей з падкаванымі нагамі.

     — Raz, dva, try, čatyry sljady! — kazaŭ Maŭhli, sxiliŭšysja nad pópjelam. — Čatyry sljady ljudzjej z padkavanymi nahami.

     [original: “One, two, three, four tracks,” said Mowgli, stooping over the ashes. “Four tracks of men with shod feet...”]

   • 1941 [1865], Mayne Reid, translated by Уладзімір Ляўданскі, Коннік без галавы, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of The Headless Horseman, page 240:

     Толькі адзін раз Зеб спыніўся — на месцы, дзе след двух іншых коней далучыўся да таго следу, па якім ён ішоў. Усе тры сляды перапляталіся.

     Tólʹki adzin raz Zjeb spyniŭsja — na mjescy, dzje sljed dvux inšyx kónjej dalučyŭsja da tahó sljedu, pa jakim jon išóŭ. Usje try sljady pjerapljatalisja.

     [original: Once only did he [Zeb] make pause; at a point where the tracks of two horses converged with that [track] he was following. From this point the three [tracks] coincided—...]

2. sign, evidence, mark
   • 1912, Jakub Kołas, “Batrak”, in Маладая Беларусь, number 2, Saint Petersburg: Загляне сонца і ў наша аконца, page 31:

     Tolki ŭ wiečer na źmierkańni / Widzien tam byŭ żyćcia śled: / Maładyje pa wienčańni / Tam spraŭlali swoj bankiet.

     Only in the evening at twilight, / A sign of life could be observed there: / The young ones after their wedding / Held there their banquet.

3. trace (a very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material)
   • 1928 [1928], Arthur Conan Doyle, translated by Кастусь Гарабурда, Глыбіня Маракота, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of The Maracot Deep, page 35:

     Мы ў месцы, дзе жыве рыба, якая сама сьвеціць, і нас цешыла гасіць наш уласны сьвет і ў поўнай цемры пазіраць у вокны на жыцьцё акіяну. У гэтай цемры сьветаадчувальная пласьцінка, каб яна правісела і цэлую гадзіну, ня выявіла-б і сьледу ўльтрафіалетавых праменьняў.

     My ŭ mjescy, dzje žyvje ryba, jakaja sama sʹvjecicʹ, i nas cješyla hasicʹ naš ulasny sʹvjet i ŭ póŭnaj cjemry paziracʹ u vókny na žycʹcjó akijanu. U hetaj cjemry sʹvjetaadčuvalʹnaja plasʹcinka, kab jana pravisjela i celuju hadzinu, nja vyjavila-b i sʹljedu ŭlʹtrafialjetavyx pramjenʹnjaŭ.

     [original: We had come into the region of the luminous fishes, and it amused us to turn out our own lights, and in the absolute pitch-darkness—a darkness in which a sensitive plate can be suspended for an hour without a trace even of the ultra-violet ray—to look out at the phosphorescent activity of the ocean.]

• Not to be confused with як след.

• “след” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• "след" in Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984) at Verbum

From Proto-Slavic *slědъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sláidus, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ-.

• IPA^(key): [slɛt]
• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation^(key): след

след • (sled)

1. after (subsequently; following in time; later than)

• “след”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014

• слѣдъ (slěd) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

From Old East Slavic слѣдъ (slědŭ), from Proto-Slavic *slědъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sláidus, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ-.

• IPA^(key): [s⁽ʲ⁾lʲet]

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след • (sled) m inan (genitive сле́да, nominative plural следы́, genitive plural следо́в)

1. track, trail

   пусти́ть по ло́жному сле́ду ― pustítʹ po lóžnomu slédu ― to throw off the trail, misguide

2. footprint, print
3. sole of a sock or stocking
4. trace, sign, vestige
5. mark, print, legacy

Compound words:

Compounds:

Phrases

• след просты́л (sled prostýl), и след просты́л (i sled prostýl)

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

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “следить”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.

• слије̑д (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *slědъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sláidus, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ-.

сле̑д m inan (Latin spelling slȇd)

1. sequence
2. track