шикалка

Bulgarian

Alternative forms

ши́кълка (šíkǎlka) (dialectal)

Etymology

Uncertain. According to Mladenov, it is related to шишарка (šišarka). According to Kurkina, it is formed by Proto-Slavic *kъlka (“bony stump”) with a putative prefix *ši- or *šče-, whence Russian щиколка (ščikolka).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈʃikɐɫkɐ]
Hyphenation: ши‧кал‧ка

Noun

ши́калка • (šíkalka) f (relational adjective ши́калчен or ши́калков)

oak gall

Declension

Declension of ши́калка

	singular	plural
indefinite	ши́калка šíkalka	ши́калки šíkalki
definite	ши́калката šíkalkata	ши́калките šíkalkite

References

“шикалка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
“шикалка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
Куркина, Л. В. (1979) “Праславянские лексические диалектизмы южнославянских языков [Proto-Slavic Lexical Dialectisms of South Slavic Languages]”, in Этимология‎ (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, published 1981, archived from the original on 20 March 2022, pages 22-23

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