ciucă
Romanian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Hungarian csuka, from Proto-Slavic *ščùka. Doublet of știucă.
Noun
[edit]ciucă f (plural ciuci)
Etymology 2
[edit]Uncertain. Possibly a substratum word.[1] Compare Bulgarian чука (čuka, “rocky hillock, peak”), Albanian çukë (“peak”), Serbo-Croatian čuka (“hilltop”).
Noun
[edit]ciucă f (plural ciuci)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | ciucă | ciuca | ciuci | ciucile | |
| genitive-dative | ciuci | ciucii | ciuci | ciucilor | |
| vocative | ciucă, ciuco | ciucilor | |||
References
[edit]- ^ Paliga, Sorin (2024) An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language, New York: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 237