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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/piľukъ

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

Probably from *pilę (chick) + *-ukъ, originally conveying “one that prays on chicken”.

Noun

*piľukъ m

  1. a bird of pray (hawk, harrier, kite, falcon)

Alternative forms

  • *piľakъ, *piľuxъ, *piľuga, *pilęga

Declension

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: пилю́к (piljúk) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: пилю́к (pyljúk) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: пи́люк (píljuk), пи́ля́к (pílják), пи́люг (píljug), пи́лек (pílek) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal)
      Cyrillic script: пѝљуга, пѝљуx
      Latin script: pìljuga, pìljuh
    • Slovene: piljúh
      • Czech: pilich

Further reading

  • Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пилюк”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 240
  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “пилюк”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
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