skadit

Volapük

Etymology

From the bound morpheme skad- (“magpie, derived from skade (“magpie in Danish”)”) +‎ -it (“a bound morpheme signifying bird”) (This Original Volapük morpheme (suffix) -it (“bird”) is the final component for the words of various birds in Volapük, such as kanerit for “canary” (now superseded by kanair), blukit for “sandpiper” or “wagtail”, pigit for “woodpecker” (superseded by pikit, cf. Latin pīcus), merit for “blackbird” (superseded by merul, cf. Latin merula), pepit for “Bohemian waxwing” (pep is the Volapükian word for “pepper”), popularly called the “pepperbird”; cf. husskade: hus (“house”) and skade (“magpie”), the Danish term for the Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ska.ˈdit]

Noun

skadit (nominative plural skadits)

(obsolete) magpie (bird of the family: Corvidae)

Usage notes

This older term has been replaced by the word piak (which derives, by metathesis, from the Latin word pīca "magpie").

Declension

Declension of *skadit*
	singular	plural
nominative	skadit	skadits
genitive	skadita	skaditas
dative	skadite	skadites
accusative	skaditi	skaditis
vocative ¹	o skadit!	o skadits!
predicative ²	skaditu	skaditus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms

piak (New Volapük)