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Bulgarian
Etymology
Uncertain. According to Mladenov, it is related to шишарка (šišarka). According to Kurkina, it is formed by Proto-Slavic *kъlka (“bony stump”) with a putative prefix *ši- or *šče-, whence Russian щиколка (ščikolka).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ши‧кал‧ка
Noun
ши́калка • (šíkalka) f (relational adjective ши́калчен or ши́калков)
- oak gall
Declension
References
- “шикалка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “шикалка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Куркина, Л. В. (1979) “Праславянские лексические диалектизмы южнославянских языков [Proto-Slavic Lexical Dialectisms of South Slavic Languages]”, in Этимология (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, published 1981, archived from the original on 20 March 2022, pages 22-23