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фитиль

Inherited from Middle Russian фитиль, фетиль, ѳитиль, ѳетиль (fitilʹ, fetilʹ, fitilʹ, fetilʹ) (att. since 1610s in R. James' dictionary, also likely related pl. ветили in 1597), borrowed – probably in the context of firearms and artillery technology, where it displaced indigenous жагра (žagra, “tinder, especially a fungal one; match in a matchlock”) – from Ottoman Turkish فتیل (“wick; fuse”) (when

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