Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/piľukъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Probably from *pilę (“chick”) + *-ukъ, originally conveying “one that prays on chicken”.
Noun
*piľukъ m
Alternative forms
- *piľakъ, *piľuxъ, *piľuga, *pilęga
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *piľukъ | *piľuka | *piľuci |
| genitive | *piľuka | *piľuku | *piľukъ |
| dative | *piľuku | *piľukoma | *piľukomъ |
| accusative | *piľukъ | *piľuka | *piľuky |
| instrumental | *piľukъmь, *piľukomь* | *piľukoma | *piľuky |
| locative | *piľucě | *piľuku | *piľucěxъ |
| vocative | *piľuče | *piľuka | *piľuci |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: пилю́к (piljúk) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: пилю́к (pyljúk) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: пи́люк (píljuk), пи́ля́к (pílják), пи́люг (píljug), пи́лек (pílek) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal)
- Cyrillic script: пѝљуга, пѝљуx
- Latin script: pìljuga, pìljuh
- Slovene: piljúh
- → Czech: pilich
Further reading
- Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пилюк”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 240
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “пилюк”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пилюк”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress