Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žukъ
Appearance
Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately onomatopoeic.
Noun
[edit]*žukъ m
- beetle (insect)
Declension
[edit]Declension of *žukъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жук”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress