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masliak

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Slovak

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masliak smrekovcový
(larch bolete, Suillus grevillei)

Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *masľakъ. By surface analysis, maslo (“butter”) +‎ -iak, because the flesh of the mushroom is butterlike soft and the cap is sometimes slimy as it were greased.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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masliak m inan (related adjective masliakový, diminutive masliačik)

  1. fungus belonging to the genus Suillus (slippery jack)

Declension

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Declension of masliak (pattern dub)
singularplural
nominativemasliakmasliaky
genitivemasliakamasliakov
dativemasliakumasliakom
accusativemasliakmasliaky
locativemasliakumasliakoch
instrumentalmasliakommasliakmi
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References

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  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “maslo”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 348.

Further reading

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  • “masliak”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
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