нерка

Russian

Самка и самец нерки

Alternative forms

• ня́рка (njárka) — obsolete, dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish nieriä into Russian during the colonization of the Kamchatka (end of 17^th, beginning of 18^th century) by Finnish-Russian bilinguals, + -ка (-ka) ending. The meaning of the Finnish word is fixed to “saibling” now but it did not need to be so at that time. Doublet of нериас (nerias), нериус (nerius), and не́ргас (nérgas), northwestern Russian dialectal forms borrowed from Karelian nieries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnʲerkə]

Noun

не́рка • (nérka) f anim (genitive не́рки, nominative plural не́рки, genitive plural не́рок)

1. sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)

   Synonyms: кра́сная (krásnaja), кра́сница (krásnica)

Declension

Declension of не́рка (anim fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc) 

	singular	plural
nominative	не́рка nérka	не́рки nérki
genitive	не́рки nérki	не́рок nérok
dative	не́рке nérke	не́ркам nérkam
accusative	не́рку nérku	не́рок nérok
instrumental	не́ркой, не́ркою nérkoj, nérkoju	не́рками nérkami
prepositional	не́рке nérke	не́рках nérkax

Descendants

• → Translingual: Oncorhynchus nerka
• → Bulgarian: не́рка (nérka)
• → Czech: nerka
• → English: nerka
• → Even: neerka
• → Evenki: nerka, njarka
• → Polish: nerka
• → Ukrainian: не́рка (nérka)

References

• Kendla, Mari (2014) “Über die Entstehung und Klassifizierung estnischer Fischbezeichnungen [On the Development and Categorization of Estonian Fish Names]”, in Linguistica Uralica‎^[1] (in German), volume 50, number 1, →DOI, pages 38–39
• Plevačová, Hermína (1978) “K slovanským výpůjčkám narikla, nerita, nerka, nanara ap. [About the Slavic loans narikla, nerita, nerka, nanara and so on]”, in Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity. A, Řada jazykovědná‎^[2] (in Czech), volumes A25-26, pages 87–91