heel: Entire Entry

пїтка heel

Пљтя хромђл из-за нарІва на пїтке.

Petya was limping because of
an abscess in his heel.

Semantics

This entry is concerned with the word пїтка referring to a part of the human foot. This word does not refer to animals. The word пїтка is also used to refer to the corresponding part of a sock or stocking, e.g. чџлки с рвђными пїтками "stockings with a run in the heel," a meaning not described in this dictionary.

Morphology

пїтка SS (о) f.in.noun

Syntax

Syntactic actants

Actant 1: whose heel it is
(a) Genitive
(b) Possessive

Прђвая пїтка Пљти сќльно распџхла.	Petya's right heel was badly swollen.
Из-за плохћй ћбуви пїтки егћ болљли.	His heels hurt from the poorly-made shoes.
NB When the word пїтка functions as a subject and does not have a descriptive modifier, the construction пїтка у + Genitive is often preferred to (a) and (b), above:
К вљчеру прђвая пїтка у Пљти сќльно распџхла.	Towards evening, Petya's right heel became badly swollen.

Restrictive modifiers

(a) adjectival modifier
(b) noun phrase: Adj + Genitive of ногђ
(c) prepositional phrase: на + Adj + Prepositional of ногђ

лљвая/прђвая пїтка	the left/right heel
пїтка лљвой/прђвой ногќ	the heel of the left/right foot
пїтка на лљвой/прђвой ногљ	the heel of the left/right foot

Lexical Relationships

Diminutives

пїточка

heel

What it is a part of

ногђ	foot; leg
пїтка лљвой ногќ_g	the heel of the left foot
NB Note that neither ступнќ_g "foot" nor подћшвы_g "foot" can be substituted for ногќ_g here. Note also that in some contexts, mostly in formal style, the word пїтки (plural) can combine with the plural form нћг_g:
При рождљнии оказђлось, что у ребёнка деформќрованы пїтки нћг.	When the child was born it turned out that its heels were deformed.

Appearance, conditions, and sensations

Shape, color, and conditions

крџглые пїтки	rounded heels
рћзовые пїтки	rosy heels
Из-под одеїла торчђли рћзовые крџглые пїтки малышђ.	The baby's rosy, round heels stuck out from under the blanket.
крђсные пїтки	red heels
босІе пїтки	bare heels
При ітих словђх мальчќшка брћсился бежђть, да тђк бІстро, что в вћздухе замелькђли егћ босІе пїтки.	When he heard this, the kid took off at a run — so fast that you could see his bare heels flashing in the air.

Sensations and medical conditions; sustaining injuries

*болљть/заболљть [Pf-begin]: у N_g пїтка_n болќт*	N's heel hurts
распухђть/распџхнуть: у N_g пїтка_n распџхла	N's heel is swollen
распџхшая пїтка	a swollen heel
*нарывђть [no Pf.]: у N_g пїтка_n нарывђет*	N has an abscess on his heel
нарІв на пїтке_p	an abscess on one's heel
отбивђть/отбќть (себљ_d) (всљ) пїтки_a	to make one's heels sore from hard walking or other pounding movement
Ну и спџск! Всљ пїтки себљ отбќл!	What a descent! Are my heels sore!
мозћль на пїтке_p	a blister on one's heel

Movements

вставђть/встђть на пїтки_a	to stand on one's heels
NB This usually describes an athletic exercise.
*качђться/покачђться [Pf-awhile] с носкћв_g (or с носкђ_g) на пїтки_a (or на пїтку_a)*	to rock from toe to heel
поворђчиваться/повернџться на пїтках_p	to turn on one's heels
*тяжелћ наступђть [no Pf.] на пїтки_a*	to walk heavily on one's heels
У негћ ужђсная похћдка — тяжелћ наступђет на пїтки, тђк что пћл трясётся.	He has a terrible gait: he brings all his weight down on his heels so that the floor shakes.
расставлїть/расстђвить пїтки_a	to assume a stance with one's heels spread
сдвигђть/сдвќнуть пїтки_a	to put one's heels together
Сдвќньте пїтки и расстђвьте носкќ!	Heels together and toes apart!
Пїтки вмљсте, носкќ врћзь!	Heels together and toes apart!
NB The above expression is a command in gymnastics or ballet.
*колотќть [no Pf.] пїтками_i пћ полу_d*	to drum on the floor with one's heels
NB The expression колотќть пїтками пћ полу, above, usually describes what a child does during a tantrum.
пинђть/пнџть N_a пїткой_i	to kick N with one's heel
Ћн с нљнавистью пнџл чемодђн пїткой.	In a fury he kicked the suitcase with his heel.
*наступђть [no Pf.] N_d на пїтки_a*	*to step on N's* heels**
сжимђть/сжђть пїтками_i бокђ_a N_g	to press the sides of N with one's heels
NB N = a noun denoting an animal that one rides.
чесђть/почесђть N_d пїтки_a	*to scratch N's* heels**
Бђрин лєбит, когдђ емџ нђ ночь чљшут пїтки.	The master likes someone to scratch his heels before he goes to bed.
щекотђть/пощекотђть N_d пїтки_a	*to tickle N's* heels**

Sample texts

Нћ ћн заложќл рџки зђ спину и покачђлся с носкћв на пїтку. [Стругђцкие, Трџдно бІть бћгом]	*But he put his hands behind his back and rocked from toe to heel. [A. and B. Strugatsky, It's Hard to be a God]*
...онђ сжђла пїтками похудљвшие в безџмной скђчке бокђ бћрова, и тћт рванџл... [М. Булгђков, Мђстер и Маргарќта]	*...with her heels she pressed the sides of the hog, thin from all the mad racing, and he bolted off. [M. Bulgakov, Master and Margarita]*
За спинћй, наступђя емџ на пїтки, бежђл Кћлька.	Kol'ka was running after him, stepping on his heels.
Мђть взялђ пџхлую нћжку ребёнка и поцеловђла егћ рћзовую пїточку.	The mother lifted the child's chubby leg and kissed his rosy heel.