Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žužeľь

Of onomatopoeic origin, from *žužati (“to hum”) +‎ *-eľь.

*žùžeľь m[1]

1. humming insect (particularly cicada, chafer)

• *žužela (a-stem)

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• *žuželica, *žuželъka (dialectal)

• *žukъ (“beetle”)
• *žuža, *žužьkъ (“cockchafer”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: жужель (žuželĭ)
    • Belarusian: жу́жаль (žúžalʹ, “chafer”)
    • ⇒ Russian: жу́желица (žúželica, “chafer”) (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Ukrainian: жу́желиця (žúželycja, “chafer”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: жоужель (žuželĭ)
  • Bulgarian: жу́жел (žúžel, “cicada”)
  • Slovene: žúžel (dated)
    • ⇒ Slovene: žužẹ̑lka (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: žúžela
    • Czech: žoužel (rare)
    • ⇒ Czech: žížala
  • Polish: żużel (“slag”) (possibly)
  • Slovak: žúžel
  • Sorbian:
    • ⇒ Upper Sorbian: žuželica
• Non-Slavic:
  • → Greek: ζούζουλον (zoúzoulon)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “жужелица”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “жужел”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 557
• Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1985), “жужаль”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volume 3 (га! – інчэ́), Minsk: Navuka i technika, page 242