suckis

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Old Prussian

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Etymology

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From earlier *zukis or *zukas, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źū́ˀ- allegedly suffixed with *-ka-;[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰúHs. Cognate with Lithuanian žuvìs, Latvian zivs, Ancient Greek ἰχθύς (ikhthús).[2]

Noun

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suckis

  1. fish

References

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  1. ^ Mažiulis, Vytautas (1997) “suckis”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas‎[1] (in Lithuanian), volume IV, Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, page 167
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “žuvìs”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 523
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