What associations do you have with the noun weasel? Someone - with a small and fluffy predatory animal, the other - with positively colored emotions and actions, tenderness and warmth. What is most interesting is that both the first and the second will be right. There are several meanings of the word weasel, and some of them have nothing in common with each other. Let's try to figure it out in order.
What is a weasel?
So, the weasel is a fast, beautiful, flexible animal of very small size. In summer, its skin is brownish in color, and in winter it is white, like fresh snow. It has strong, clawed, agile paws well adapted to successfully climb trees.
Despite this, she prefers to hide not in foliage, but between stones or in the roots of huge trees.
Homonyms for the word weasel
The noun weasel has a homonym that sounds and is spelled exactly the same as the name of an animal. But he names kind feelings or actions filled with tenderness towards another person.
Morphological characteristics
Nounweasel consists of five letters and sounds (two vowels and three solid consonants, of which two consonants are voiceless and one is sonorous), two syllables, the stress falls on the first syllable.
In the meaning of an animal, it is a common noun and animated, while caress/tenderness refers to the grammatical category of inanimate and also common nouns.
Declination
Both are feminine nouns in the first declension.
| Case/Number | Questions | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | Who? What? | Weasel is tenderness, love, warmth, cuteness, care. | Weasels are good at climbing tall trees and running away from enemies. |
| Genitive | Whom? What? | Weasel, a wonderful companion of love, I have not expected him for a long time. | Weasels have very sharp claws that can cause very serious wounds. |
| Dative | Who? What? | I don't trust his demonstrative affection, usually he is not like that at all. | Don't come close to caresses, son - they will easily bite or flatten the skin. |
| Accusative | Whom? What? | I see your praised kindness, I see your true face. | I'll visit the sick weasels in the nursery, ask the veterinarians and foresters if they need help. |
| Instrumental | Who? What? | I treat you with affection, with all my heart, and you… | The branches of the trees closed over the weasels, today they managed to escape from the kites. |
| Prepositional case | About whom? About what? | What do you know about affection? Nobody has ever loved you yourself and you don't love anyone but yourself! | I only read about petting in children's books about animals. |
Synonyms for weasel
What to do if in the text the noun we are considering in such detail is present in excessive quantities? Try to find related words to the word weasel.
- Grace: When Alexey Dmitrievich looked at this not very beautiful woman, all the mercy of the world was concentrated in his warm look.
- Kindness: Kindness was in everything: in touch, in words, in breath.
- Tenderness: Tenderness is gone, it's time to part, stop torturing each other.
- Softness: The softness of the voice of the new PE teacher bribed and deceived the students.
- Friendliness: The main condition for communication in the community is friendliness, respect for others and friendliness.
Antonyms
Antonyms are words that are the same part of speech, have different spellings and sounds, and have opposite meanings.
Weasel is not:
- Strictness: Strictness and affection are indispensable conditions for a good upbringing.
- Rudeness: The rudeness of a loved one offended and hurt Margarita, she did not understand at all how such things could happen to himdramatic changes in just a few days.
- Violence: Violence is the mother of violence.
Single-root words
In Russian lessons in elementary grades, students often have to match different words with the same root words.
The noun weasel may well be among them:
- To caress: Marianna Albertovna did not know how to caress and cradle her child, probably, in infancy she was deprived of the love and care of her parents.
- Affectionate: Andrey Nikolayevich's affectionate daughter always rejoiced at the arrival of her father and tried to wait for him from work, no matter how late he came.
- Ungentle: Who are you so unkind born into!
- Affectionately: To calm the victim, the young policeman spoke to her calmly, affectionately, patiently.
- Unkind: Nikolai's sharp, cold eyes looked unkind, even with contempt.
- Affectionate: In the last lesson we studied diminutive adjective suffixes.
- To caress: No one in the whole world will caress the poor orphan Grishenka, will not regret, will not sympathize with his grief.
- Dove: Mom, look what a cute dove with cubs, let's get closer to them!
Interesting facts about weasel
Did you know that the weasel is the smallest predator living on our green planet. By the way, she lives on all the continents that lie in the northern hemisphere.
- This, at first glance, cute animal is characterized by aggressiveness and a kind of courage. She canfight off a predator much larger than herself.
- How to tell the weasel from another predator - the stoat, which resembles it as a larger twin brother? The difference is in the tail. Weasel has one color.
- Slavs in ancient times considered this beast the guardian of the house, peace in it. And the Spaniards did not see the Frog Princess, but saw the weasel as an enchanted beauty.
- In summer - brown, in winter - white. What is this riddle about? You guessed it: about her, about our affection!
- This little predator can live almost as long as a human. A real long-liver in the animal world!
- The Romans tamed weasels and kept them in their homes as mousetraps.
