шикалка
Bulgarian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ши́кълка (šíkǎlka) (dialectal)
Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]ши́калка • (šíkalka) f (relational adjective ши́калчен or ши́калков)
Declension
[edit]Declension of ши́калка
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | ши́калка šíkalka |
ши́калки šíkalki |
| definite | ши́калката šíkalkata |
ши́калките šíkalkite |
References
[edit]- “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[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, published 1981, archived from the original on 20 March 2022, pages 22-23