Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/cu

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

Onomatopoeic. Compare Lithuanian cū, čiú čiú, ćiuciũ, Latvian cu, ciũ, German zschu.

Interjection

*cu

1. used to call out the dogs

Derived terms

nouns

• *cucьkъ m (“dog”)

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Ukrainian: цу-цу́ (cu-cú), цю-цю́ (cju-cjú)
  • Russian: цуцу́-цуцу́ (cucú-cucú)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    ⇒ Cyrillic script: цу̏ки

    ⇒ Latin script: cȕki

• West Slavic:
  • Polish: ciu, ciu-ciu, ciucia, a ciu, a cucu (dialectal)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: tśu tśu
    • ⇒ Lower Sorbian: tśuko tśuko
    • Upper Sorbian: ću ću

Further reading

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “цу-цу”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka