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Old Ruthenian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic хꙑщьникъ (xyščĭnikŭ); further origins unclear. Cognate with Russian хи́щник (xíščnik).
Noun
хищникъ • (xiščnik) m animal
- predator (any animal or other organism)
Descendants
- Ukrainian: хи́щник (xýščnyk) (dialectal)
Further reading
- Bulyka, A. M., editor (2016), “хищникъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 36 (фолкга – чорно), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 80