Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čižь

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

From a suffixed base of imitative origin.^[1]^[2]

Noun

*čižь m

Eurasian siskin, Spinus spinus

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: чижь (čižĭ)
  - Belarusian: чыж (čyž)
  - Russian: чиж (čiž)
  - Carpathian Rusyn: чіж (čiž)
  - Ukrainian: чиж (čyž)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: чи̑ж
  
  Latin script: čȋž
West Slavic:
- Czech: číž (archaic)
  - Moravian (Mistřice): číš
- Old Polish: czyż, cyż
  - Polish: czyż
  - Silesian: czyż
- Slovak: číž
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: cyž

Non-Slavic:
- Middle High German: zīsec, zīsic
  - → German: Zeisig
- → English: siskin
- → Hungarian: csíz

References

^ “siskin”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “sijs2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

[1] “siskin”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

[2] van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “sijs2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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