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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ščuka

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Further etymology is unknown. Some linguists suggest origin from Proto-Indo-European *skew-, with determinative *-k-.[1][2] However compare with the Polish name for the pike, newly formed in the 17th-century, szczupak, derived from szczupać (“to pinch”), by comparison with which one derives *ščuka too as deverbal from *ščukati (“to pinch”) – named after the fish’s predatory behaviour.[3] Probably also related to Proto-Finnic *hauki, which may be borrowed from Slavic, or both words may originate from a substrate.

Noun

*ščùka f[4]

  1. pike (fish)

Declension

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Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic:
    • Old Novgorodian: щюка (ščjuka)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

References
  1. Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “щу́ка”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
  2. Toporov, Vladimir N.; Trubachyov, Oleg N. (1962) Lingvisticheskiy analiz gidronimov Verkhnego Podneprovya‎ (in Russian), Moscow: Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, page 246
  3. Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “Proto-Slavic/ščuka”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 599
  4. Olander, Thomas (2001), “ščuka”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132; RPT 109)”
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