Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žukъ

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

Ultimately onomatopoeic.

Noun

*žukъ m

1. beetle (insect)

Declension

Declension of *žukъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*žukъ	*žùka	*žùci
genitive	*žùka	*žùku	*žùkъ
dative	*žùku	*žùkoma	*žùkomъ
accusative	*žukъ	*žùka	*žùky
instrumental	*žùkъmь, *žùkomь*	*žùkoma	*žùkȳ
locative	*žùcě	*žùku	*žùcě̄xъ
vocative	*žùče	*žùka	*žùci

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: жукъ (žukŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: жукъ (žuk)
      • Belarusian: жук (žuk)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: жук (žuk)
      • Ukrainian: жук (žuk), джук (džuk)
    • Russian: жук (žuk)
• West Slavic:
  • ⇒ Czech: žukat
  • Polabian: zauk
  • Polish: żuk
  • Sorbian:

    Upper Sorbian: žuk

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жук”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress